Summary:
Zip code 39540, covering the D'Iberville, Mississippi area, is home to just one elementary school: D'Iberville Elementary, which serves grades K-3 with an enrollment of 367 students in the Harrison County School District. Because only one school is present in this zip code, the analysis focuses on how this school performs against its district and state benchmarks rather than comparing it to neighboring schools.
D'Iberville Elementary serves a student population where 99.46% qualify for free/reduced lunch, a high-poverty indicator, yet it posts impressive test scores. In 2025-2026, third grade English Language Arts proficiency reached 71.3%, which is 22.8 points above the state average and 9.7 points above the district. Math proficiency hit 66.7%, 17.9 points above the state and 7.9 points above the district average. The school also improved sharply from the prior year, gaining 8.6 points in ELA and 2.9 points in math, while district and state scores declined over the same period. Its student-teacher ratio is 14.3:1, allowing for more individualized instruction in these foundational early elementary grades.
The school's chronic absenteeism rate is 20.7%, slightly better than the district's 21.1% and the state's 23.9%, but it still means roughly one in five students miss substantial instructional time. Historically, the school's state ranking has been volatile, earning 5 stars in 2009-10 and 2011-12 but only 2 stars in 2010-11, so single-year rankings should be interpreted cautiously. Its district is highly ranked at 15th out of 134 Mississippi districts, placing in the 89th percentile with a 4-star rating. Overall, D'Iberville Elementary stands out as a high-poverty school achieving above-average proficiency in both reading and math, with strong recent momentum, though reducing chronic absenteeism and sustaining improvement remain key priorities.
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