Earl Travillion Attendance Center, Hattiesburg MS

Original Research by School Decision on Earl Travillion Attendance Center

Earl Travillion Attendance Center sits on Travillion Drive in Hattiesburg, serving pre-kindergarten through eighth grade as part of the Forrest County School District. It is a small school, with roughly two dozen students per grade level across most of its bands. The campus draws from a community where nearly every student qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, and the student body is predominantly Black, with a substantial Hispanic presence and a small share of multiracial and White students. The school is not a charter or magnet school. Data on its Title I status, locale classification, staffing, discipline, and course access was not available in the provided materials, so those dimensions are left out rather than estimated.

Hattiesburg frames the school's setting. Publicly reported sources describe it as the principal city of the Pine Belt region, home to the University of Southern Mississippi and William Carey University, and shaped by its proximity to Camp Shelby, a major National Guard training installation. The city grew around railroad and lumber industries, earning the nickname "Hub City," and today it functions as a regional center for healthcare, education, and military activity. The built environment is largely auto-oriented, with walkable pockets concentrated downtown and in the historic neighborhood district. Housing in the school's zip code is modest relative to both state and national benchmarks, with home values well below the Mississippi median and rents that remain affordable by national standards. The area saw growth pressures after Hurricane Katrina displaced coastal residents inland, and the city has described itself as being on an upward trajectory.

On Mississippi's MAAP assessments for the current school year, Earl Travillion's results vary widely across grades and subjects. In math, third graders posted the strongest showing, with roughly half of tested students reaching proficiency, and seventh graders were close behind at about the same level. Those are solid marks for a school serving a high-poverty enrollment. But the middle elementary and upper grades tell a different story. Fifth-grade math proficiency dropped to the lower end of the scale, and eighth-grade math was similarly low, with only a fraction of tested students demonstrating mastery. Fourth and sixth grades landed in between. The pattern suggests that early-grade math instruction is producing results, but sustaining that momentum through the upper elementary and middle school years remains a challenge. A parent may want to look into what interventions or supports the school offers for students in those transition years.

English language arts results are more consistent across grades, hovering in a modest range from the high twenties to the mid-thirties for most grade levels. Seventh grade was the exception, dipping below the rest. There is no single grade where ELA proficiency jumps to a level that stands out, but the relative stability suggests the school is maintaining a baseline of literacy instruction even where it struggles to push large shares of students into the proficient category.

Science was assessed in fifth and eighth grades. Fifth-grade science was the school's strongest science result, with a meaningful share of students reaching proficiency. Eighth-grade science was lower, consistent with the broader dip seen in upper-grade math performance.

No multi-year trend data was available, so it is not possible to say whether these results represent improvement, decline, or stability over time. Participation rates were also missing from the dataset. Because the school does not serve high school grades, no graduation rate applies. Information on English learner services, special education enrollment, and civil-rights indicators was not provided. The district brief turned up no parent-relevant changes such as bond measures, curriculum shifts, or facility updates, so there is nothing to report on that front.

What the picture suggests is a small, community-rooted school serving a high-need population in an affordable part of a mid-sized university town. Its early-grade math and fifth-grade science results are encouraging relative to the demographic context. The decline in upper-grade math and the modest ELA performance across the board are areas where families with children entering those grade bands would want to ask specific questions about tutoring, intervention programs, and how the school plans to support students through the transition into algebra-level coursework and high school readiness.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 353%

School 53% · District 64% · ▼ 11 pts below district

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▼ 19 pts below county median

Grade 435%

School 35% · District 57% · ▼ 23 pts below district

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 31 pts below county median

Grade 519%

School 19% · District 47% · ▼ 28 pts below district

▼ 23 pts below state median · ▼ 27 pts below county median

Grade 625%

School 25% · District 48% · ▼ 23 pts below district

▼ 26 pts below state median

Grade 750%

School 50% · District 67% · ▼ 17 pts below district

▼ 2 pts below state median

Grade 820%

School 20% · District 48% · ▼ 28 pts below district

▼ 24 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 329%

School 29% · District 64% · ▼ 35 pts below district

▼ 18 pts below state median · ▼ 32 pts below county median

Grade 431%

School 31% · District 60% · ▼ 29 pts below district

▼ 18 pts below state median · ▼ 25 pts below county median

Grade 531%

School 31% · District 62% · ▼ 32 pts below district

▼ 20 pts below state median · ▼ 26 pts below county median

Grade 635%

School 35% · District 52% · ▼ 17 pts below district

▼ 7 pts below state median

Grade 719%

School 19% · District 53% · ▼ 34 pts below district

▼ 13 pts below state median

Grade 837%

School 37% · District 51% · ▼ 14 pts below district

even with state median

Science

Grade 542%

School 42% · District 66% · ▼ 23 pts below district

▼ 22 pts below state median · ▼ 24 pts below county median

Grade 830%

School 30% · District 60% · ▼ 30 pts below district

▼ 23 pts below state median

This schoolFORREST COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.