Stringer Attendance Center, Stringer MS

Original Research by School Decision on Stringer Attendance Center

Stringer Attendance Center is a single-campus public school serving prekindergarten through twelfth grade in the West Jasper Consolidated School District. It sits along a county road in Stringer, a rural unincorporated community in southwestern Jasper County, Mississippi, in the state's Piney Woods region. The community centers on the intersection of Mississippi Highway 15 and County Road 10, with the highway running straight through and connecting residents north to Bay Springs and south to Laurel, the nearest city of any size. Jackson lies farther to the northwest. There is no walkable downtown, no sidewalks, no public transit, and no formal municipal government. The post office and the school are the primary civic anchors, and the school functions as the heart of community life in a place where few other public institutions exist.

The community has seen modest population decline. It once had a railroad and lumber economy, but those drivers are gone, and no current major employers are documented in available sources. Publicly reported material describes Stringer today as a rural residential community with limited commercial activity. Housing values are well below the state and national benchmarks, and the local market has been softening. Homes here are inexpensive relative to most of Mississippi, which may appeal to families prioritizing affordability, though the declining trajectory is worth noting for anyone thinking about long-term property value.

The student body is moderately sized for a combined prekindergarten-through-twelfth-grade campus. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The enrollment is predominantly white, with a smaller Black population and very small Hispanic and multiracial groups. Data on English learners and special education populations was not available, so those dimensions of the student profile cannot be described here.

On Mississippi's MAAP assessment, the school's results tell a mixed story. In math, proficiency is solid in the early and middle elementary grades, with a majority of third, fourth, fifth, and sixth graders scoring proficient or above. The strongest showing is in sixth grade, where roughly seven in ten tested students met the proficiency bar. By seventh and eighth grade, math proficiency dips, with just over half of students reaching proficiency. ELA follows a similar arc: third grade starts strong, fourth grade drops to about half, fifth and sixth grade recover to comfortable majorities, and then seventh grade falls sharply, with well under half of students proficient. Eighth grade ELA improves somewhat from the seventh-grade low but remains below the levels seen in the elementary grades. Science results are available only for fifth and eighth grade, and both show a majority of students proficient, with eighth grade science among the school's stronger results.

The pattern across subjects is consistent: the elementary grades perform well, and the middle grades show a slide, most pronounced in seventh-grade ELA. A parent might want to look into this further with the school, particularly if they have a child entering the upper middle grades, to understand what drives the dip and what support is in place.

State testing data is not available for high school grades because the data provided here covers grades three through eight and fifth and eighth grade science. No graduation rate was provided. No course access, advanced placement, dual credit, or career-pathway information was included in the available data, so the academic picture beyond the tested middle grades is limited. The same is true for staffing ratios, discipline data, and attendance figures, none of which were reported.

The West Jasper Consolidated School District brief turned up no parent-relevant changes, such as bond issues, curriculum shifts, or facility investments, in recent publicly reported material. The search found only basic district profile information, so there is little to say about district-level direction or recent initiatives.

What the picture does show is a small rural school serving as the center of a quiet, affordable, declining community, with respectable elementary test results and a middle-grade soft spot. Families drawn to rural living, low housing costs, and a single campus where children stay with the same school from prekindergarten through graduation may find this an appealing setting. Those wanting richer program data, high school outcomes, or special-population information will need to go directly to the school or district, because the available data does not provide it.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

>=90%Cohort of 57 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 369%

School 69% · District 63% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▲ 19 pts above state median

Grade 464%

School 64% · District 58% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▲ 14 pts above state median

Grade 563%

School 63% · District 58% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▲ 21 pts above state median

Grade 671%

School 71% · District 48% · ▲ 22 pts above district

▲ 20 pts above state median

Grade 756%

School 56% · District 58% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 4 pts above state median

Grade 855%

School 55% · District 54% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 11 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 367%

School 67% · District 68% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▲ 19 pts above state median

Grade 450%

School 50% · District 54% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▲ 1 pts above state median

Grade 563%

School 63% · District 53% · ▲ 11 pts above district

▲ 12 pts above state median

Grade 664%

School 64% · District 41% · ▲ 23 pts above district

▲ 22 pts above state median

Grade 737%

School 37% · District 31% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▲ 5 pts above state median

Grade 847%

School 47% · District 41% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▲ 10 pts above state median

Science

Grade 553%

School 53% · District 58% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▼ 12 pts below state median

Grade 865%

School 65% · District 57% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 11 pts above state median

This schoolWEST JASPER CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS, 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.