Middle · Mississippi
Jefferson County Middle School
Jefferson County Middle School, a public middle school in Fayette, Mississippi: grades 6–8, 240 students, 12.6 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Jefferson County School District.
Size and class size
Compared with middle schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 240
- Teachers (FTE)
- 19.0
- Students per teacher
- 12.6
- Grades
- 6–8
- Middle
Fewer students per teacher than 64% of middle schools in Mississippi
Median 13.2 · 180 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 70% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Smaller than 82% of middle schools in Mississippi
Median 374 · 181 schools compared
Smaller than 82% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
State test results
Share of students scoring proficient or above on Mississippi's tests, grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year.
Reading and writing
Mississippi: 47%17%proficient
−5.4 points from 2023–24 school year
A lower share proficient than 91% of middle schools in Mississippi
Median 37% · 181 middle schools compared
232 students tested, grades 6, 7, 8 · MAAP; proficient means Levels 4-5
Math
Mississippi: 52%21%proficient
−2.7 points from 2023–24 school year
A lower share proficient than 91% of middle schools in Mississippi
Median 47% · 181 middle schools compared
232 students tested, grades 6, 7, 8 · MAAP; proficient means Levels 4-5
Each state sets its own test and its own bar for “proficient”, so results compare only within a state. Results also follow family income closely: a school's share reflects its students' circumstances as much as its teaching.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 6–8
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Area
- Remote rural area
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Jefferson County School District.
Location
- Address
- 468 Highway 33, Fayette, MS 39069
- Phone
- (601)786-3721
- County
- Jefferson County
Nearby middle schools
The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Morgantown ElementaryFree meals for all | 5–6 | 359 | 13.2 |
Port Gibson Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 223 | 10.1 |
| 7–8 | 157 | 10.7 | |
Natchez MiddleFree meals for all | 7–8 | 397 | 12.0 |
| 4–6 | 234 | 13.0 | |
Vidalia Junior High SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 336 | 11.2 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
- State Assessment Data Repository (Education Data Center), 2024–25 school year. Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository v3.1.
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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