Summary:
ZIP code 74572 has two schools in the Tupelo district: Tupelo Elementary School, serving PK–8 with 165 students, and Tupelo High School, serving grades 9–12 with 70 students. The clearest difference is academic: in 2025–2026, the elementary school was above the state in all three shared subjects, while the high school was well below the state in math and science.
Tupelo Elementary School stands out in the shared proficiency results, leading the high school by 12 points in ELA (32% versus 20%), 45 points in math (49% versus 4%), and 39 points in science (43% versus 4%). It exceeded state rates by 6 points in ELA, 24 in math, and 13 in science. The high school was below the state by 6 points in ELA, 21 in math, 26 in science, and 9 in U.S. History. A positive counterpoint: its 2024–2025 graduation rate was 98%, compared with 78% statewide, and its 2025–2026 chronic absenteeism was 7%, versus 16% statewide. The high school’s 11th-grade results were also below state results in every reported subject, by 9 to 17 points. All-grades comparisons are not perfectly like-for-like because the schools serve different grade spans.
Results declined in most shared subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: elementary scores fell 8 points in ELA, 6 in math, and 7 in science; high-school scores fell 14 in ELA and 17 in science, while math rose 1 point. SchoolDigger ranks the high school at the 10th percentile in 2025–2026, down from the 39th percentile the year before. Context differs between schools: in 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible students were 92% at the elementary school and 74% at the high school, while student–teacher ratios were 14.4 and 7.9, respectively. These figures describe the schools but do not explain their different test results.
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