The top reported proficiency rate is 37% in Science. The lowest is 21% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Leflore Legacy Academy
Leflore Legacy Academy is a middle-school-only charter district in Mississippi, serving grades six through eight from a single school. The enrollment is small for its grade band, and the student body is predominantly Black, with smaller Hispanic and White populations and a handful of Asian and multiracial students. Because the entity covers only middle grades, there is no graduation rate to report, and the state assessment picture is limited to the grades and subjects Mississippi tests at this level.
On the 2024-25 MAAP assessments, proficiency rates sit in the low to mid-twenties across most grade-subject combinations. In math, sixth-grade proficiency is the lowest point in the data, seventh grade reaches the strongest math result, and eighth grade falls between the two. English language arts proficiency is fairly flat across the three grades, ranging in a narrow band. Eighth-grade science is the brightest spot, with a higher proficiency rate than any math or ELA figure in the dataset. Participation rates for these assessments were not available in the data provided, so a parent may want to confirm testing participation directly with the school.
The school has publicly reported that academic proficiency in both math and science more than doubled from the 2022-23 to 2023-24 school years. The school's own materials note that a portion of entering students perform below grade level when they arrive, which gives context for the current proficiency figures. The state testing data shown here is from a later year than that reported improvement, and no multi-year trend series was available in the data to confirm whether those gains held. A parent weighing this school should ask the administration for the most current trend data and for details on how the school supports students who enter below grade level.
Several data fields that would help round out the picture are missing. Free-or-reduced-price lunch counts and rates were not reported, so the economic profile of the student body is not available here. Special population data, including Individualized Education Program counts and English learner counts, are also missing. No locale brief, community context, or housing information was provided, so there is no grounded description of the surrounding town or the local housing market in this dataset. No neighbor comparison fact-set was available to position the district against other Mississippi districts. Staffing, discipline, course access, attendance, and civil-rights data were all absent as well.
What the available data does show is a small, focused middle-school charter serving a largely Black student population in Mississippi, with state proficiency results that are modest in absolute terms but with a publicly reported trajectory of recent improvement in math and science. The school's own acknowledgment that many students arrive below grade level frames those numbers as a starting point rather than a ceiling. For a parent evaluating Leflore Legacy Academy, the most productive next step would be to sit down with school staff and ask how the gains they have reported are being sustained, what interventions support students entering below grade level, and what the current year's internal assessment data shows.
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