Summary:
Zip code 38737 in Drew, Mississippi, is served by a single middle school, Drew Hunter Middle, a grades 6-8 school with 82 students in the Sunflower County Consolidated School District. With only one middle school in the area, there are no local schools to compare it to, so the most useful benchmarks are district and state averages. The school has earned 2 stars in each of the last three ranking years, while the district itself ranks 98th out of 134 Mississippi districts and holds a 1-star rating.
Drew Hunter Middle stands out most for attendance and math. Its chronic absenteeism rate is just 7.3%, compared to 24.4% for the district and 23.9% statewide. In 2025-2026, the school beat its district in every math grade level, including 7th-grade math at 62.9% proficiency — about 20 points above the district and above the state. Science is also a bright spot: 8th-grade science proficiency reached 66.6% in 2024-2025 and 61.5% in 2025-2026, both above district and state averages. The 2024-2025 Algebra I End-of-Course pass rate of 66.7% nearly matched the state's 67.3%.
English Language Arts is the main concern. For example, 6th-grade ELA proficiency was just 20% in 2025-2026 versus 48% statewide, and 8th-grade ELA was 23% versus 40.9% statewide. There was a bright spot in 7th-grade ELA, which rose from 16% to 29.6%, but a sharp drop in 6th-grade ELA from 33.4% to 20% shows results are inconsistent. With 100% of students eligible for free/reduced lunch, the school serves an entirely economically disadvantaged population, yet its math and science results show high-poverty schools can be competitive. Because enrollment is small — roughly 27 students per grade — a single student represents about 3.7 percentage points, so year-to-year swings should be interpreted cautiously.
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