The Louisville Municipal School District will celebrate its “B” ranking as a district from the Mississippi Department of Education on Thursday, October 24 at 6 p.m. in the Louisville Storm Shelter.
“We want to celebrate the accomplishment and recognize the hard work of the teachers, staff and students, said Louisville Municipal School District Superintendent Randy Grierson when announcing the event to the Louisville Rotary Club.
He added, “Louisville Municipal School District is proud to reach a B for the first time. We aim to continue to improve and strive toward an ‘A’ district”.
Louisville Municipal School District was among the 46 school districts out of 140 that increased a letter grade from 2017-18 school year to 2018-19 school year under the Mississippi Department of Education accountability model and testing.
LMSD increased from a C district in 2017-2018 to a B district in 2Among the state’s 877 schools, 258 increased their letter grade from last year with several in LMSD increasing over last year.
Rankings for the individual schools in the district are:
Nanih Waiya Attendance Center with an A; Noxapater Attendance Center with an A; Fair Elementary with a B; Louisville Elementary with a B; Eiland Middle School with a C and Louisville High School with a C.
Mississippi’s A-F accountability system evaluates how well schools and districts are performing each year. Accountability grades are based, in part, on how well students perform and progress from year to year on the Mississippi Academic Assessment Program (MAAP) tests for English language arts (ELA) and Mathematics. These tests are aligned to the Mississippi College and Career Ready Standards and are administered annually to students in grades 3-8 and in high school. Overall, students showed statistically significant gains in both ELA and Mathematics from 2017-18 to 2018-19.
Grierson asked that all the community come out and support the celebration and continue to support the schools.
