Achievements

MDE Announces 2021 Teacher of the Year, Administrator of the Year Finalists

The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) announced today the finalists for the 2021 Mississippi Administrator of the Year and the ...
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Four Mississippi Schools Receive National Blue Ribbon School Honors

U.S. Department of Education today recognized four Mississippi schools as National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2020. The recognition is based ...
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Four Mississippi Teachers Receive Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching

Four Mississippi teachers earned national recognition as the recipients of the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching ...
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Five D’Iberville High Seniors Receive College Degree Before Getting High School Diploma

Five D’Iberville High seniors made history this year by becoming the first students in the Harrison County School District to ...
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Majority of 3rd Graders Meet Higher Standard to Pass Reading Test

Statewide, three out of four students met the higher bar for the 3rd Grade Reading Assessment on their first try, ...
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Starkville Resident Named Mississippi’s 2019 Parent of the Year

JACKSON, Miss. – Leslie Fye, a mother of two children in the Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated School District, was named the ...
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Join the Mississippi Succeeds Communication Campaign

All education stakeholders are invited to join the Mississippi Succeeds communication campaign to help raise awareness about rising student achievement ...
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Two Harrison County Seniors Headed to Ivy League Universities

Two Harrison County High School seniors have been accepted into Ivy League universities and plan to enter as freshmen in ...
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State Board Member, Retired MDE Leader Receive 2018 MASA Awards

Mississippi State Board of Education member Dr. John Kelly was awarded the 2018 Friend of Education by the Mississippi Association of ...
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Clinton School District Counselor Named Mississippi School Counselor of the Year

CLINTON — Sumner Hill Junior High School counselor Heather Norton is Mississippi’s School Counselor of the Year. She received the ...
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