Mize Attendance Center, Mize MS - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Mize Attendance Center

Mize Attendance Center is a single-campus school serving pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade in the Smith County School District, a rural stretch of central Mississippi. It is the kind of place where one building carries a child from their first classroom experiences all the way through senior year, which shapes both the peer environment and the academic pathway in ways a parent should understand. The enrollment is moderate for a rural combined campus, spread fairly evenly across grade bands. The student body is predominantly white, with a smaller Black population and very small Hispanic and multiracial representation. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals, reflecting the economic realities of the surrounding community.

On state assessments, the most recent MAAP results tell a story of genuine strength in the upper elementary and middle school math sequence. Eighth-grade math proficiency is particularly high, and seventh grade is strong as well. Third and fourth grade math results are also solid. The one clear dip comes in fifth grade math, where proficiency drops well below the other grades. A parent might want to look into what is happening at that transition point with the school. Sixth grade math sits in a middling range. Science results, available only for fifth and eighth grades, are strong in both, which suggests the school is doing good work in that subject area.

English language arts results are more varied. Third grade reading proficiency is the strongest, while seventh grade ELA is the weakest result in the entire data set, with fewer than half of tested students reaching proficiency. The other ELA grades hover in a moderate band, with fourth, sixth, and eighth grade all landing near the midpoint. The contrast between the school's math performance and its ELA performance is the most striking pattern in the data. Math clearly outpaces reading and writing across most grades.

No high school-specific assessment results, graduation rate, or college-readiness metrics were available in the data provided. A school serving all grades through twelve would normally have some high school outcomes to report, and their absence here is a gap a parent should ask about directly. Similarly, no information on advanced course offerings, career pathways, dual credit, or extracurricular programs was included, so the picture of what happens after eighth grade is thin. Special education and English learner data were also missing.

The town of Mize itself is very small, settled along old Gulf and Ship Island Railroad lines and known publicly as the home of the Mississippi Watermelon Festival. The built environment is low-density residential with a small commercial footprint along main roads. There is no walkability infrastructure to speak of. The town has a post office and a town hall with limited business hours. Publicly reported history notes that an F-3 tornado struck the high school building decades ago, ripping off the second floor, with reconstruction completed in a later year. No major employers were identified in available sources, and no growth or development plans surfaced. The business footprint is tiny, with only a handful of establishments employing a few dozen people total.

Housing in the area is inexpensive by both state and national standards. Typical home values sit well below the state benchmark and far below the national one. The price-to-income ratio is favorable, and estimated monthly mortgage costs are modest. For a family whose priority is affordable housing in a quiet rural setting, this is an accessible market. Rent data was not available, so the rental picture is incomplete. No recent district policy changes, curriculum shifts, or referenda were found in the search, so there is little to report on the district's strategic direction beyond what the school's own results show.

What Mize Attendance Center appears to offer is a close-knit, all-grades campus in a small rural community where the math and science instruction in the tested grades is genuinely strong, especially in the upper middle school years. The reading and writing results are more uneven, and the lack of visible high school outcome data and program detail means a parent would need to go to the school directly to understand the full secondary experience.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

80-89%Cohort of 54 students · Class of 2021

The federal source publishes a banded range instead of an exact rate when the graduating cohort is small enough that an exact number could risk identifying individual students.

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

241 schools plotted. 29 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Math

Grade 375%

School 75% · District 56% · ▲ 19 pts above district

▲ 25 pts above state median

Grade 466%

School 66% · District 49% · ▲ 17 pts above district

▲ 15 pts above state median

Grade 542%

School 42% · District 44% · ▼ 2 pts below district

even with state median

Grade 662%

School 62% · District 54% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▲ 11 pts above state median

Grade 779%

School 79% · District 59% · ▲ 20 pts above district

▲ 27 pts above state median

Grade 884%

School 84% · District 57% · ▲ 28 pts above district

▲ 40 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 364%

School 64% · District 53% · ▲ 11 pts above district

▲ 17 pts above state median

Grade 454%

School 54% · District 44% · ▲ 10 pts above district

▲ 5 pts above state median

Grade 545%

School 45% · District 40% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▼ 6 pts below state median

Grade 654%

School 54% · District 41% · ▲ 13 pts above district

▲ 12 pts above state median

Grade 738%

School 38% · District 33% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▲ 6 pts above state median

Grade 853%

School 53% · District 44% · ▲ 10 pts above district

▲ 17 pts above state median

Science

Grade 575%

School 75% · District 63% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▲ 10 pts above state median

Grade 872%

School 72% · District 57% · ▲ 15 pts above district

▲ 19 pts above state median

This schoolSMITH CO SCHOOL DIST, 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.