The top reported proficiency rate is 58% in Math. The lowest is 52% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on North Pike Elementary School
North Pike Elementary School sits in Summit, Mississippi, a small railroad town in Pike County that is part of the McComb micropolitan area. The town originated as a stop on the Illinois Central Railroad, and its civic life still clusters along the West Railroad Avenue corridor, where Town Hall, the police department, and a historic depot turned community event space all sit within a compact stretch. Summit is also home to Southwest Mississippi Community College, whose presence gives the town an institutional anchor beyond its municipal government. Median household income here runs low, and the town has seen its population decline over recent decades, with no major new housing developments on the public record. The nearby regional center of McComb draws commuters and provides additional amenities. Housing values in the school's zip code sit well below both the state and national benchmarks, and recent values have drifted downward, which may interest families weighing purchase costs against the local economic picture.
The school serves kindergarten through fourth grade, with an enrollment that is sizable for its grade band. Every student qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, a reflection of the economic conditions across the attendance area. The student body is roughly half white and half Black, with a small number of students from other racial or ethnic backgrounds. Information on students with individualized education programs and English learners was not reported, so those figures are a gap a parent may want to ask the school about directly.
On Mississippi's MAAP assessments, North Pike Elementary produced solid proficiency results in the most recent school year. In math, a majority of third graders and a slightly larger majority of fourth graders scored proficient or above. English language arts results were a touch lower but still showed just over half of tested students reaching proficiency in both grades. Average scale scores were reported for each tested grade. Participation rates were not available, and the state did not flag any assessment name or cut-score changes that would complicate how a parent reads these results. Multi-year trend data was not provided, so there is no way to characterize whether performance is improving, holding steady, or slipping over time. A parent looking for that direction would need to go to the school or district for prior-year comparisons.
Because North Pike Elementary stops at fourth grade, it has no graduation rate, no AP or dual-credit offerings, and no high school course access data. Those measures do not apply to a school serving this age range. We also found no data on discipline, staffing ratios, attendance, or gifted and talented programming, and no civil-rights reporting was included. The school's Title I status was not specified in the available data, though the universal free-or-reduced-price lunch rate suggests the school almost certainly operates under that framework.
At the district level, North Pike School District recently secured voter approval for a bond issue directed at facility and security improvements across all its schools. The publicly reported plan covers security upgrades, roof repairs and replacements, HVAC work, classroom renovations, and technology updates. For a family with children at the elementary level, this signals that building conditions and classroom environments are likely to see investment in the near term, while the bond also carries property-tax implications worth understanding.
Summit itself is a quiet, compact place shaped by its railroad origins and its community college campus. Families considering North Pike Elementary are looking at a school where most students come from economically constrained households, where state test results land in a respectable middle band for Mississippi, and where the surrounding housing market is among the more affordable in the state. The town's proximity to McCommob offers access to broader services and employment. What the data does not capture is programmatic detail, so parents with questions about classroom approach, special services, or before- and after-school care should reach out to the school directly.
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