The Mississippi Department of Education has released report cards for districts and individual schools.
Mississippi Report Cards for the 2016-17 school year were released Feb. 6 and are available at the Reports section of the MDE website (www.mde.k12.ms.us). Report cards for each school and district in the state can be found under the tab labeled “NCLB,” which stands for No Child Left Behind.
The Webster County School District's 2016-17 report card has also been posted on its website at www.webstercountyschools.org under the "About Our Schools" tab.
The Mississippi Report Cards contain the accountability grades and information about school and district performance on statewide assessments, the graduation rate (for high schools and districts) and teacher qualifications.
Most of the information contained in them was made public in October when statewide accountability results for the 2016-17 school year were released. Local results were published in the Progress-Times on Oct. 25.
Mississippi Report Cards for the 2017-18 school year will be redesigned and updated to comply with new requirements of the Every Student Succeeds Act.
Local information
Information by category for the Webster County School District follows:
• Accountability grade:
District: B (prior year: B)
East Webster Elementary School: C (prior year: B)
East Webster High School: B (prior year: C)
Eupora Elementary School: D (prior year: C)
Eupora High School: B (prior year: B)
• Proficiency in English-language arts:
District: 44.7 percent.
EWES: 46.8 percent
EWHS: 51.2 percent
EES: 40.2 percent
EHS: 41 percent
• Proficiency in math:
District: 48.3 percent
EWES: 52.7 percent
EWHS: 62 percent
EES: 34.8 percent
EHS: 44.3 percent
• Proficiency in science:
District: 75.8 percent
EWES: 66.7 percent
EWHS: 80.8 percent
EES: 73.2 percent
EHS: 78.1 percent
• Proficiency in U.S. history:
District: 64.5 percent
EWHS: 73.7 percent
EHS: 56.7 percent
• Overall growth in ELA assessment:
District: 66.1 percent
EWES: 59.8 percent
EWHS: 74.7 percent
EES: 54.7 percent
EHS: 68.3 percent
• Overall growth in math assessment:
District: 62.4 percent
EWES: 52.8 percent
EWHS: 78.9 percent
EES: 38.5 percent
EHS: 65.6 percent
• Graduation rates (data is lagged one year — based upon the 2015-16 school year)
District: 83.1 percent
EWHS: 88.2 percent
EHS: 78.6 percent
(See related article on latest district graduation and dropout rates)
• Highly Qualified Teachers:
District: 98.3 percent
EWES: 96 percent
EWHS: 98.5 percent
EES: 100 percent
EHS: 98.2 percent
No teachers in the WCSD are teaching with emergency credentials.
The Webster County School District’s total enrollment this year is 1,863 with 129 of those being 12th-graders.
