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The education system in Mississippi consists of elementary, middle, and high schools as well as boarding schools, public and private schools, and colleges and universities.
Mississippi has a reputation of having the lowest ranked education system in the United States. In 2008, Mississippi ranked last in academic achievement by the American Legislative Exchange Council's Report Card on Education with the lowest average ACT score[1] and the 6th lowest spending per pupil in the nation. On the other hand, by 2019 Mississippi had significantly narrowed the gap in the National Assessment of Educational Progress, even achieving parity for both reading[2]
and mathematics.[3]
Most of the schools in Mississippi are accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
^Note that state-by-state comparisons of average ACT scores are an unreliable measure of student achievement, as some states, such as Mississippi, administer the test to all their students, which lowers the score. States with higher scores tend to have much lower participation rates.
^NAEP state-by-state comparisons at the 4th-grade level for reading
^NAEP state-by-state copmarisons at the 4th-grade level for mathematics
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