Summary:
Zip code 38756, serving the Leland, Mississippi area, is home to exactly one middle school: Leland School Park. This school serves grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 232 students as part of the Leland School District. With no other middle schools in the ZIP code, all grade-level test results for the district in grades 6-8 come from this single school, making its performance especially important to the local community.
Leland School Park stands out for several notable strengths. In 2024-2025, 100% of tested students scored proficient on the Algebra I End-of-Course exam, and 93.3% did so in 2025-2026, both far above state averages near 66-67%. The school also showed dramatic improvement in 8th grade, with math proficiency jumping from 31.3% to 54.0% and science from 20.9% to 44.0% between the two most recent school years. The 8th-grade math result actually surpassed the state average of 51.4%. Despite a very high poverty rate, with 98.71% of students eligible for free/reduced lunch, the school's chronic absenteeism rate is just 10.3%, compared to 17.8% for the district and 23.9% for the state.
However, significant challenges remain. English Language Arts proficiency is consistently below state averages at every grade level, hovering around 29% overall versus roughly 42% statewide. Sixth-grade math is also a concern, with only 23.4% proficient compared to the state's 52.7%. The school's state ranking improved from the 21st percentile in 2024-2025 to the 30th percentile in 2025-2026, and its star rating rose from 1 to 2 stars, but it remains in the bottom third of Mississippi middle schools. For families, this means a school with clear bright spots in advanced math and attendance, but with substantial work needed in literacy and early middle-school math.
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