Salem Attendance Center, Tylertown MS

Original Research by School Decision on Salem Attendance Center

Salem Attendance Center sits along Highway 27 north of Tylertown, Mississippi, serving the Walthall County School District as a combined kindergarten-through-twelfth-grade campus. The single-school structure means a child can spend their entire public education in one place, moving from elementary grades through high school without changing buildings. For families drawn to continuity and a small-community setting, that is a defining feature.

The enrollment is modest for a K-through-12 campus, with each grade level carrying a small cohort. Every student qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, which reflects the economic conditions in the surrounding area rather than any selective criterion. The student body is predominantly white, with a substantial Black enrollment and a small share of students identifying as two or more races or Hispanic. The school does not report figures for English learners or students with individualized education programs, so families whose children receive those services may want to ask the school directly about what is available.

On Mississippi's state assessments, the MAAP, Salem's results across grades three through eight paint a mixed but not discouraging picture. In math, third graders posted a solid proficiency rate, and seventh and eighth graders performed respectably as well. Fifth grade stands out as a dip, with fewer students reaching proficiency, and sixth grade sits below the stronger grades too. The English language arts results follow a related pattern: fourth grade is the high point, eighth grade holds strong, and fifth grade again trails. Science results are available for fifth and eighth grades, and eighth-grade science is a genuine bright spot, with a majority of students demonstrating proficiency. Taken together, the elementary grades are uneven, and the middle grades generally recover. A parent might want to look into what happens between fourth and fifth grade that could explain the dip.

No state assessment results are reported here for high school courses such as Algebra I, Biology, or English II, so the upper-grade academic picture is incomplete from this data alone. The school itself does not carry a graduation rate in what was provided. At the district level, though, publicly reported information indicates that Walthall County School District's graduation rate has climbed over the past five years from a level that had been near the bottom among Mississippi districts. That improvement, if it holds, matters for families thinking about college and career readiness, though the specific current rate is not confirmed in the data available here.

The housing market around Salem is very affordable by any standard. Typical home values in the school's zip code sit well below the Mississippi state average and far below national levels, and recent values have shown a slight decline. Estimated monthly mortgage costs are modest relative to national figures, and the price-to-income ratio for the area comes in below the national benchmark. No rental market data was available for this location. Families looking to buy will find entry costs low; renters will need to look elsewhere for market context.

Several categories of information that parents often weigh were not available in this data. The school's locale classification, Title I status, staffing levels, discipline data, course access details, and attendance figures are all absent. Program offerings such as Advanced Placement, dual credit, or career and technical education are not listed. Civil-rights reporting fields are empty. A family evaluating Salem for its academic pathways beyond the tested grades, or for the breadth of its high school curriculum, will want to contact the school directly, as this data does not fill in those pieces.

What the available information does show is a small, rural, combined-grade school serving a community where economic need is pervasive, where state test results vary by grade but hold their own in the middle years, and where the surrounding district has been working its way up from low graduation outcomes. The housing is inexpensive, the continuity of a K-through-12 campus is real, and the gaps in what is reported here are wide enough that direct outreach to the school would be a worthwhile next step for any family seriously considering it.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

>=90%Cohort of 32 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 358%

School 58% · District 42% · ▲ 16 pts above district

▲ 8 pts above state median

Grade 446%

School 46% · District 41% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▼ 4 pts below state median

Grade 525%

School 25% · District 25%

▼ 17 pts below state median

Grade 633%

School 33% · District 35% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▼ 18 pts below state median

Grade 754%

School 54% · District 38% · ▲ 16 pts above district

▲ 2 pts above state median

Grade 849%

School 49% · District 28% · ▲ 21 pts above district

▲ 5 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 342%

School 42% · District 22% · ▲ 21 pts above district

▼ 5 pts below state median

Grade 458%

School 58% · District 50% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▲ 9 pts above state median

Grade 531%

School 31% · District 33% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▼ 20 pts below state median

Grade 645%

School 45% · District 40% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▲ 3 pts above state median

Grade 749%

School 49% · District 30% · ▲ 19 pts above district

▲ 17 pts above state median

Grade 853%

School 53% · District 33% · ▲ 20 pts above district

▲ 17 pts above state median

Science

Grade 534%

School 34% · District 44% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▼ 30 pts below state median

Grade 864%

School 64% · District 47% · ▲ 17 pts above district

▲ 11 pts above state median

This schoolWALTHALL 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.