Mississippi juniors show slight increase in ACT scores
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) released ACT results of all public high school juniors, who took the test during the spring 2025 statewide administration. According to MDE, the average composite score for 30,070 juniors was 17.5, a slight increase of the 2024 average score of 17.4. Previous years’ average scores were 17.5 […]
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) released accountability grades for the 2024-25 school year. According to officials, the grades showed 80.1% of schools and 87.2% of districts earned a grade of C or higher. They said this represents a decrease from the 2023-24 school year, when…
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) released the 2024-25 Mississippi Academic Assessment Program (MAAP) results. According to officials, the results showed increased proficiency in some grades and content areas, but there was a slight drop in overall proficient and advanced scores. The percentages of students scoring…
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Mississippi has made vast improvements in education that started more than a decade ago. On Thursday, the Senate Education Committee heard from the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE). “In 2013, I like to say that we became very honest with ourself because there was... we were…