The top reported proficiency rate is 48% in Math. The lowest is 42% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Leakesville Elementary School
Leakesville Elementary sits in a small, rural county-seat town along the Chickasawhay River in southeastern Greene County, Mississippi. The town sits at the junction of state highways, with civic functions clustered along Lafayette Avenue in a traditional main-street pattern. Publicly reported sources describe a place built on cotton-plantation history that today remains mostly rural with limited commercial activity. The dominant employer in the area is the South Mississippi Correctional Institution, a state prison facility in unincorporated Greene County whose annexation caused the town's census population to surge before the 2020 count. The Greene County School District, which operates three schools in Leakesville, is another steady employer, as are county government offices. Since the 2020 census, the town's population has edged downward, and no major housing developments or commercial growth projects surfaced in available reporting. Housing here is notably affordable relative to both the state and national benchmarks, with a price-to-income ratio well below what most American homebuyers face. The estimated monthly mortgage cost sits low by national standards, though current mortgage rates temper that advantage somewhat. For a family looking to buy, the market offers entry-level pricing in a quiet, low-density setting.
The school serves pre-kindergarten through fourth grade on Annex Road. Its enrollment is modest for its grade band. The student body is predominantly white, with a meaningful Black student share and very small representation from other racial and ethnic groups. Every student at the school qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, which places Leakesville Elementary firmly among schools serving a high-poverty community. Data on individualized education programs and English-learner status was not available, so those population sizes are unknown here.
State testing results come from the Mississippi Academic Assessment Program for the most recent school year. Because the school ends at fourth grade, only third and fourth graders produce state proficiency results. In third-grade math, just over half of tested students reached proficiency or above. Fourth-grade math was lower, with fewer than half clearing that bar. English language arts results were weaker still in both grades, with fourth grade the lowest of the four reported measures. These are middling results that lean toward the lower end, particularly in literacy. A parent may want to look into this further with the school, especially how reading instruction and intervention are structured in the early grades. No multi-year trend data was available, so it is not possible to say from the provided material whether these numbers represent improvement, decline, or stability over time. Participation rates for the assessments were also missing from the data.
Pre-kindergarten through second grade do not have state test results in Mississippi, so the absence of those scores reflects the grade band rather than a gap in reporting. There is no graduation rate or advanced-course data to discuss, which is expected for an elementary school. The school is not a charter or magnet school. Title I status was not reported in the provided material, though the universal free-or-reduced-price lunch figure strongly suggests the school would qualify. No discipline data, course-access information, staffing ratios, or attendance figures were available.
The district brief turned up no parent-relevant changes such as curriculum shifts, bond referendums, or property-tax adjustments in recent reporting. No information on special programs, extracurriculars, or instructional models was provided beyond what the standard curriculum implies for an early-elementary school in Mississippi.
What the picture amounts to is a small rural elementary school serving an economically disadvantaged community in an affordable housing market, with state test results that are uneven and tilt toward the lower side, especially in reading. Families considering Leakesville would be looking at a quiet county-seat setting with low housing costs, a school where poverty is the norm rather than the exception, and academic outcomes that suggest room for growth. Asking the school directly about literacy instruction, early-grade interventions, and any support services tied to the universal economic need would help a parent understand what is available and whether the approach fits their child.
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