Summary:
Zip code 39160 in Sallis, Mississippi contains exactly one elementary school — Long Creek Elementary School — serving 199 students in grades PK-6 within the Attala County Schools district. As the only elementary option in the area, this school serves as the sole education provider for the community, so there are no local schools to compare against one another. Instead, the most meaningful benchmarks are the district and state averages.
Academically, Long Creek presents a mixed profile that parents should understand. The school's strongest results in 2025-26 were in 6th grade math, where 80% of students scored proficient — far above the state average of 52.7% — and in 4th grade English Language Arts, where 69.2% were proficient versus 52.4% statewide. However, significant challenges remain in 6th grade ELA (25% proficient), 3rd grade math (23.5%), and 5th grade science (47.8%, a 31.6-point gap below the district). Averaged across grades 3-6, Long Creek trails the district by roughly 12 points in ELA and 16.6 points in math.
Context matters for interpreting these results. Nearly all students (98.49%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, yet chronic absenteeism at 22.6% is better than both the district (31.4%) and state (23.9%). The school's state ranking has slipped from the 56th percentile in 2023-24 to the 37th percentile in 2025-26, even though Attala County Schools ranks 32nd out of 134 districts statewide. Because grade-level cohorts are small, year-to-year proficiency swings can be dramatic — such as 4th grade ELA jumping 33 points or 6th grade ELA dropping 23 points — so parents should look at multi-year patterns rather than any single year in isolation.
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