State leaders react to high marks on 2022-23 academic assessment

State leaders are reacting to the latest Mississippi Academic Assessment Program scores released earlier this week.

The Mississippi Department of Education says the student achievement scores in the core subjects of math, English, U.S. history, and science are all-time highs.

For the 2022-23 school year, 52.6 percent of Mississippi students scored proficient in math, 46.7 percent in ELA, 59.4 percent in science, and a whopping 71.4 percent in U.S. history.

This also marks a rebound from the upward trajectory in student proficiency scores seen from 2016-2019, before the pandemic.

We asked Governor Reeves about the scores. Here’s what he had to say.  “Now, we’re still showing the best scores in Mississippi History, and that’s a credit to our teachers, to our administrators, it’s a credit to our parents, and most of all, it’s a credit to our kids.”

Governor Reeves also credited the quick return of kids to the classroom post-pandemic as another reason for academic success.