The Mississippi State Board of Education’s latest ranking of Mississippi’s public schools is an excellent one, and I am glad they included it on their website.
The way this ranking is done is by calculating the number of students per school. In general, this is a good thing because it makes it easier to compare schools and how they’re doing. However, it also makes it easier to compare schools based on their ranking.
The Mississippi State Board of Education also has a more refined ranking of schools based on how well they’re doing in the state of Mississippi. This is a good thing because it makes it easier to find schools that have a higher ranking. However, it makes it a little harder to compare a school’s ranking with other schools in Mississippi because the Mississippi State Board of Education does that by comparing the total number of students per school.
This isn’t to say that Mississippi is an easy state to compare schools with because Mississippi has a lot of schools that haven’t been in the state of Mississippi in a long time. But the Mississippi State Board of Education does have a more refined ranking system than the Mississippi Department of Education, which ranks schools based on how many students they have per school.