The top reported proficiency rate is 60% in Science. The lowest is 46% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Lt Taylor Intermediate School
L.T. Taylor Intermediate School sits on Mable Street in Lucedale, the county seat of George County, Mississippi. It is part of the George County School District and serves grades three through seven, though its tested and enrolled population runs primarily through grade six. The school is a traditional public school, not a charter or magnet. Every student enrolled qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, which marks this as a school serving a uniformly economically disadvantaged population. The student body is predominantly white, with a Black minority, smaller shares of students identifying as two or more races or Hispanic, and a trace Asian presence. Data on English learners and students with disabilities was not available, so those populations could not be characterized here.
On Mississippi's MAAP assessments for the most recent school year, the school's results tell a mixed but readable story. Third grade is the strongest cohort. A majority of third graders reached proficiency in both math and English language arts, which is a solid starting point. By fourth grade, math proficiency drops noticeably, with fewer than half clearing the bar, while ELA holds closer to the midpoint. Fifth grade math rebounds to a level comparable to third grade, and fifth grade science stands out as the school's strongest single result, with a clear majority proficient. ELA in fifth and sixth grades settles below the halfway mark. Sixth grade math is the weakest area, with only about a third of students reaching proficiency. A parent noticing the dip in fourth and sixth grade math may want to look into this further with the school, since the school's own third and fifth grade results show that students here are capable of clearing the proficiency threshold when instruction and support align.
No multi-year trend data was available, so it is not possible to say whether these results are improving, declining, or holding steady. Participation rates were also missing from the dataset. The school does not serve high school grades, so there is no graduation rate, no AP or dual-credit data, and no college-readiness profile to report. Program offerings, course access, staffing ratios, attendance figures, discipline data, and Title I status were all absent from the available data, which limits the picture considerably. What can be said is that the school operates as an intermediate-level campus feeding into a broader district structure, and the grade band it covers is one where foundational math and literacy skills are the central academic work.
Lucedale itself is a small Southern city with a Main Street spine rather than a pedestrian grid. Mississippi Highway running through town forms the primary commercial and civic corridor, with City Hall and the George County Courthouse anchoring the downtown. The Lucedale Depot Greenway offers walking trails, an accessible boardwalk, and fishing ponds near the center of town, and Lucedale City Park has a playground, walking track, splash pad, and baseball facilities. The Lucedale-George County Public Library, part of the Jackson-George Regional Library System, hosts a biennial Mississippi Shakespeare event. No fixed-route public transit serves the area. The city sits roughly between Mobile to the northwest, Hattiesburg to the north, and Pascagoula to the south, placing it in a rural but not isolated stretch of the Mississippi Gulf Coast region.
The local economy leans on George Regional Hospital, a community-owned nonprofit serving several counties, and on county government offices. Lucedale has seen modest population growth since the last census, and the city describes itself as retaining small-town character while expanding housing options. The housing market here is affordable relative to both state and national benchmarks, with home values sitting below the state median and well below the national figure. The price-to-income ratio is favorable, and estimated monthly mortgage costs are modest at current interest rates. Rental data was not available, so a complete picture of the rental market is not possible from what was provided. For a family considering the area, housing costs would likely be a relative advantage compared to most of the country.
We looked for recent district-level changes from the George County School District that would matter to parents and found little in the way of specific, lasting developments, so that thread is left out rather than guessed at. No comparison data positioning this school against neighboring schools in the county was available, which means the proficiency results described here stand on their own without a local peer benchmark. A family evaluating L.T. Taylor Intermediate would be looking at a school where early-grade performance is reasonably strong, where science in the tested grade is a bright spot, and where middle-grade math is the area most worth asking about. The uniform economic need across the student body is a defining feature of the school's context, and the community around it is small, affordable, and growing gently.
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