Summary:
Middle schools in zip code 38668 consist of a single school, Senatobia Middle School, which serves grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 407 students in the Senatobia, Mississippi area.
Senatobia Middle School is the only middle school in this zip code, so all comparisons are made against statewide averages. The school has earned a 3-star rating for the 2025–2026 school year, ranking 127th out of 260 Mississippi middle schools, which places it right at the 51st percentile. After jumping from 2 stars to 3 stars between 2023–2024 and 2024–2025, the school has held steady at 3 stars. While the overall district, Senatobia Municipal School District, is highly rated at 4 stars and ranks in the top 29% of districts in Mississippi, the middle school itself sits right in the middle of the pack statewide.
Academically, the school’s strongest area is 6th grade, where students outperform the state in both ELA (51.4% vs. 48.0%) and math (54.7% vs. 52.7%). Performance tends to decline as students move through middle school: 8th-grade ELA proficiency is 34.6%, 6.3 points below the state, and math drops to 48.5%, also below the state. The biggest concern is 8th-grade science, where only 43.2% of students are proficient, a substantial 14.6-point gap below the state average; this gap has widened from 10.5 points the previous year. Overall, the school averages 46.2% proficiency across all tested subjects and grades, compared to the state average of 49.3%, a modest 3.1-point difference. With 65.36% of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch and a chronic absenteeism rate of 23.9% (equal to the state average), the school faces challenges that may influence achievement. For parents, this means a middle-of-the-road school with clear strengths in 6th grade but a pressing need for improvement in 8th-grade science and ELA.
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