The top reported proficiency rate is 64% in Math. The lowest is 40% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Quitman County Elementary School
Quitman County Elementary School sits in Lambert, a very small rural town in the Mississippi Delta that has been steadily losing population over the past two decades. The town has no real commercial district to speak of. Railroad tracks cut through it, and the nearest Amtrak stop is a few miles north in Marks, but trains do not stop in Lambert itself. Daily life here is car-dependent, and the largest employer in the area is the Mississippi Department of Corrections, which runs a community work center near town and the state penitentiary at Parchman in the neighboring county. Publicly reported sources describe median household income as extremely low, with an unemployment rate well above the national average. The town hall on Scott Avenue and the elementary school are the primary civic anchors, both embedded in a compact grid of residential streets rather than sitting on a separated campus.
The school serves pre-kindergarten through fourth grade and has a modest enrollment for that grade band. Its student body is almost entirely Black, with small numbers of white and multiracial students. Every student qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, which reflects the broader economic conditions in Lambert and the surrounding county. The school does not carry a charter or magnet designation. Data on students with individualized education programs and English learners was not available, so those populations cannot be characterized here.
State testing results from the most recent year are available for third and fourth grade, the two grades the state assesses at this level. Both grades take the Mississippi Academic Assessment Program, or MAAP. In mathematics, a majority of tested students reached proficiency or above in both grades, with fourth grade slightly ahead of third. This is a solid showing for an elementary school in a high-poverty community, and the math results suggest the school is moving a healthy share of its students to grade-level competency in numeracy.
English language arts tells a different story. In both tested grades, fewer than half of students reached proficiency. Fourth grade was modestly stronger than third, but the overall picture is one where a substantial portion of students are not yet reading at grade level as measured by the state assessment. A parent may want to look into this further with the school, asking what reading interventions, tutoring, or literacy supports are in place and how progress is tracked from year to year. Because the data set includes only a single year of results and no multi-year trend information, it is not possible to say whether ELA performance is improving, flat, or declining.
No participation rate was reported for either subject or grade, which means it is unclear whether all eligible students were tested. The school does not serve high school grades, so there is no graduation rate to report. Civil-rights data such as discipline, course access, and staffing was not provided, nor was information on specific program offerings, so those dimensions of school life cannot be described here. A comparison fact-set positioning this school against its neighbors was also not available.
What the available information does convey is a small, community-embedded elementary school serving a student population that faces concentrated economic disadvantage in a town with limited private-sector employment and a shrinking population. The math results stand out as a relative strength. The ELA results are a soft spot worth asking about directly. For a family in Lambert or considering a move there, the school is the town's primary educational institution, and the relationship between the school and the community is close simply because the town is so small. The absence of publicly available information on programming, staffing ratios, and student support services means a parent would need to contact the school or the Quitman County School District directly to get a fuller picture of what the day-to-day experience looks like for a young child.
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