Bay Springs’s public schools beat 74% of Mississippi districts
The public schools Bay Springs’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 74% of Mississippi’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
What Bay Springs’s schools are like
The high school is the weak link
One district takes students from Bay Springs Elementary School all the way to Bay Springs High School. The elementary school earns the best grade on the path (B+); the high school earns the lowest (D). See the path ↓
Math is above the state; reading is just below
Reading proficiency is 34%, 1 point below the state. Math is 38%, 3 points above the state. Both are close enough to average that small changes could flip them. Test scores ↓
This summary is written from the data on this page. Test scores are from 2020–21, a pandemic year, so treat small gaps with caution.
How Bay Springs compares
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Mississippi’s state tests against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown but don’t count. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids through every district that serves it, weighted by students tested. Tests count 60%, graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are compared with the rest of Mississippi only. A+ is the top 5%, A the next 10%, A− the next 10%, the B range the next 30%, the C range the next 30%, D the rest.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income, so we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where will my kid go?
Pick a grade. These are the public schools that serve Bay Springs.
The district
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Close to the state in reading
Every school in Bay Springs
4 schools. Grades are based on state tests and graduation. Any other ratings are made by neighbors.
Parents talk
What Bay Springs families are saying about school.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Colleges near Bay Springs
There’s no college in Bay Springs, but 2 are within 30 miles. The closest is Southeastern Baptist College in Laurel, 17.6 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Bay Springs. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus · College Scorecard · IPEDS.
School data: U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts, F-33 school finance). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within Mississippi. Stars are from neighbors.