The top reported proficiency rate is 54% in Science. The lowest is 43% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Warrenton Elementary School
Warrenton Elementary School sits on Belva Drive in Vicksburg, serving prekindergarten through sixth grade as part of the Vicksburg Warren School District. The school enrolls roughly three hundred students across those grade levels. Its student body is predominantly Black, with smaller white, Hispanic, and multiracial populations. Every student at the school qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, which marks it as serving a uniformly low-income community.
State assessment results from the most recent year reveal a clear and consistent pattern. Third graders perform well, particularly in math, where proficiency is strong, and in ELA, where a slight majority reach proficiency. Fifth-grade science is also a relative bright spot, with a slim majority of students meeting the proficiency bar. As students move into the upper grades, though, proficiency falls off. By fifth and sixth grade, math proficiency drops to roughly a quarter to just under a third of tested students. ELA shows a similar downward arc, with fewer than half of fourth graders and about a third of sixth graders proficient. The gap between the early grades and the later ones is wide enough that a parent looking at this school may want to ask how the school and district are addressing the slide in the upper elementary years. This is the kind of pattern that could reflect a curriculum alignment problem, a staffing gap, or a transition difficulty as content gets harder, and the school would be the right place to press for answers.
The school does not serve high school grades, so there is no graduation rate to report, and that is simply a function of its grade band rather than a missing indicator. Prekindergarten and kindergarten are also not part of the state testing system, so their absence from the assessment data is expected. Some information that would help round out the picture was not available. The data does not include the school's individualized education program rate or its English learner count. Participation rates for the state assessments were also missing. No discipline, course access, staffing, or attendance data was provided for this school.
Vicksburg itself is a small river city perched on a bluff above the Mississippi. The local economy leans heavily on federal employment, with the Army Corps of Engineers operating three large installations in town, supplemented by four riverfront casinos and a tourism sector built around Civil War history and the Vicksburg National Military Park. The surrounding area retains an agricultural character, and the city functions as a regional hub for Warren County. Downtown has a concentrated strip of restaurants, shops, and galleries housed in historic nineteenth-century structures, but beyond that core the city is largely auto-oriented. The city's population has been declining in recent years, and no major residential development projects surfaced in publicly reported material.
The housing market around the school is modest. Typical home values in the school's zip code sit well below both the state and national benchmarks, and recent values have drifted slightly downward. That makes homeownership relatively accessible by national standards, though the broader economic context of declining population and a concentrated public-sector economy shapes what life in the neighborhood looks like. For families tied to the area, housing costs are unlikely to be a barrier.
The Vicksburg Warren School District brief surfaced little of parent-relevant change in the way of recent referendums, curriculum overhauls, or property-tax shifts, so there is nothing specific to flag on the district policy front.
What this school appears to be is a community elementary school serving a high-poverty student population in a small, historically rooted Mississippi river town. Its youngest tested students are performing at a level that suggests real strength in the early grades. The challenge sits in the upper grades, where proficiency erodes in both math and reading. For a family considering Warrenton, the most productive step would be to ask school leadership directly what is driving that decline and what interventions are in place for students in the fourth-through-sixth-grade band.
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