Corinth Middle School

Corinth Middle School serves 719 students in grades 5–8 in Corinth, Mississippi, as the largest middle school in its area and the sole middle school in the Corinth School District. In the 2025–2026 school year, the school earned a SchoolDigger rank of 96th out of 260 Mississippi middle schools, placing it in the 63rd percentile with 3 stars. That is a major improvement over the previous year, when it ranked 145th (45th percentile), and its best showing since 2016–2017.

Math is the school's clearest strength. Average math proficiency across grades 5–8 was about 53.9%, slightly above the state average of 52.9%, and 8th grade math jumped from 38.1% to 55.5% proficient in a single year. Science is middling—above the state in 8th grade but below it in 5th. The bigger concerns are chronic absenteeism and upper-grade reading. Corinth's chronic absenteeism rate was 29.0% in 2023–2024, roughly double the rate at nearby R.H. Long Booneville Middle School (12.2%), Kossuth Middle School (13.9%), and Alcorn Central Middle School (15.9%). In ELA, only 35.5% of 7th graders and 39.4% of 8th graders were proficient—below state averages and behind all three neighboring schools.

Despite its weaker district, Corinth Middle School now ranks just ahead of Kossuth Middle School (96th vs. 101st), even though Kossuth sits in the much higher-rated Alcorn School District. Corinth's poverty level is similar to its peers—about 68% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch—so economics alone don't explain the gap. The school does have larger classes (15.4:1 vs. 12.4:1 to 14.9:1 at nearby schools). With math already above state averages and strong recent momentum, reducing chronic absenteeism and strengthening literacy in grades 7 and 8 look like the highest-leverage opportunities for continued progress.