Summary:
Zip code 39071 contains one school, East Flora Elementary, a public elementary school in the Madison County Schools district serving grades PK through 5 with an enrollment of 249 students in East Flora, Mississippi. This is the only school in the area, with no middle schools or high schools listed within the zip code. East Flora Elementary operates as a high-poverty school, with 89.56% of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch, while maintaining a notably low student-teacher ratio of 10.5, suggesting relatively small class sizes.
Academically, East Flora Elementary shows mixed results. In the most recent MAAP testing, the school exceeded the state average in 3rd-grade math (53.6% vs. 48.8%), 4th-grade ELA (56.3% vs. 52.4%), and 5th-grade science (75.8% vs. 71.5%). However, significant gaps remain in other areas, especially 4th-grade math, where only 31.3% of students are proficient versus 64.5% districtwide, and 5th-grade math at 36.4% proficiency. The school also experiences substantial year-to-year swings, with 4th-grade ELA improving by 21.8 points while 3rd-grade ELA dropped by 11.2 points in the same period.
East Flora's state ranking has declined from the 56th percentile with 3 stars in 2023-2024 to the 46th percentile with 2 stars in the most recent year. Chronic absenteeism affects 25.1% of students, higher than both the district rate of 20.4% and the state rate of 23.9%. Notably, the school belongs to Madison County Schools, which ranks 20th out of 134 districts in Mississippi, yet the school itself ranks in the 46th percentile—a striking disparity within a high-performing district. While the school shows clear bright spots in several subjects and benefits from small class sizes, math proficiency and chronic absenteeism remain critical areas of concern.
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