Summary:
Zip code 39038 covers Belzoni, Mississippi, and contains exactly three public schools serving 1,130 students, all part of the Mississippi Achievement School District of Humphreys County: Humphreys County High School (grades 9–12, 427 students), Ida Greene Elementary School (PK–4, 398 students), and O.M. McNair Middle School (grades 5–8, 305 students). This is a uniformly high-poverty area, with every school reporting 100% free and reduced lunch eligibility, and the district overall ranks 131 out of 134 districts in Mississippi with a 2nd-percentile rating.
No school in this zip code is high-performing by statewide standards, but a few stand out relative to their own baseline. Ida Greene Elementary School has shown the most upward movement, jumping from the 1st to the 10th percentile statewide; its 4th grade math proficiency more than doubled from 21.2% to 43.2%, leaving a gap of just 8.3 points from the state average, the closest any school in the area comes to meeting a benchmark. O.M. McNair Middle School offers bright spots in 5th grade science (44% proficient) and 7th grade math (30.3%), and its chronic absenteeism rate of 17.3% is better than both the district (22.8%) and the state (23.9%). Humphreys County High School performs best in Algebra I at 46.8% proficient, while Biology remains its weakest subject at just 26.5%.
Overall, the zip code reflects deep systemic challenges. Humphreys County High School has a 74.2% graduation rate, 15 points below the state average, and its 27.2% chronic absenteeism rate is the worst among the three schools. Proficiency gaps of 20 to 39 points below state averages persist across nearly every tested subject, and no school reached the state average in any subject in 2025–2026. Yet the improvement at Ida Greene Elementary and the attendance and science gains at O.M. McNair Middle School indicate that, despite universal poverty and a low-ranked district, there are early signs of progress worth watching.
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