The top reported proficiency rate is 58% in Science. The lowest is 47% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Biggersville Elementary
Biggersville Elementary sits just south of Corinth along Highway 45, part of the Alcorn School District and serving pre-kindergarten through sixth grade. It is a small rural school, and the surrounding area tells you a good deal about what life here looks like. Corinth is the county seat of Alcorn County, perched at the Mississippi-Tennessee state line in the northeast corner of the state. The downtown core, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has a traditional grid with the Coliseum Theatre, the Crossroads Museum, and civic buildings that speak to the city's Civil War and railroad heritage. Outside that core, the city spreads across a landscape shaped by agriculture, printing, and the manufacture of electronic equipment and diesel engines. Corinth has grown slowly over the past two decades, with no large-scale development projects visible in available sources. The city itself describes a small-town atmosphere aimed at young families and retirees, and the housing market reflects that posture. Home values in the school's zip code sit well below the state benchmark and far below the national one, and the price-to-income ratio is modest by national standards. Rent data was not available, so a picture of the rental market here is incomplete.
The school's enrollment is small for its grade band, which means children grow up among familiar faces and the same cohort year after year. A large share of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals, which is typical for the area and shapes the kinds of support families expect the school to provide. The student body is predominantly white, with a smaller Black population and a sliver of multiracial students; Asian and Hispanic representation is minimal. Data on students with individualized education programs and English learners was not reported, so those populations cannot be characterized here. The same goes for discipline, staffing ratios, attendance patterns, and program offerings; none of that information was available in the data reviewed. A parent looking into special education services, gifted programming, or extracurriculars would need to ask the school directly, because the public data does not speak to those questions.
Academic results from the Mississippi Academic Assessment Program tell a mixed but readable story. Third-grade math is a clear strength, with a strong majority of students reaching proficiency. Third-grade reading is solid as well. Fifth-grade science stands out as another bright point, with well over half of tested students proficient. These early-grade and science results suggest that younger students at Biggersville are building foundational skills on a reasonable footing.
The middle grades are softer. Math proficiency dips noticeably in fourth grade and falls further in fifth grade before rebounding in sixth. Reading follows a similar pattern, with fourth grade the lowest point and a partial recovery in fifth and sixth. The fifth-grade math result is the weakest in the school's profile, and a parent may want to look into this further with the school, particularly around how instruction shifts as students move from early elementary into the upper grades. The dip-then-rebound pattern across grades is something families might ask about directly, since the data alone does not explain the cause. No participation rates were reported for any grade or subject, and no multi-year trend data was available, so it is not possible to say whether these results represent improvement, decline, or stability over time.
Because Biggersville serves only through sixth grade, there is no graduation rate, no ACT or college-readiness data, and no high school course access to report. Those gaps reflect the grade band, not a missing accountability measure. The Alcorn School District's broader priorities and any recent changes were not surfaced in available sources, so this account stays with what the school-level data shows.
What the picture adds up to is a small, community-rooted elementary school in an affordable rural market near a historic county-seat town. The academic foundation in the earliest tested grades is a genuine strength, and the science results are encouraging. The upper-elementary dip in both math and reading is the area a family would want to understand better before enrolling an older child. For a family drawn to a quiet, low-cost setting where the school is a known quantity in the community, Biggersville offers a starting point worth a direct conversation.
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