Washington County’s public school districts are showing improvement in all areas of student success, according to the 2016-17 Report Cards that were released Tuesday by the Mississippi Department of Education.
While much of the information in each district’s report card was previously available through the Mississippi Accountability Scores, which were released in October, Tuesday’s data combines accountability data with demographics for each school to easily pinpoint where districts are succeeding and where they need to focus their efforts.
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