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Have our academics dropped that low?
This is good news for Starkville and Mississippi State.
New Starkville High School being constructed on Mississippi State campus
The project is the first of its kind in the nation, housing all 9th through 12th grade high school students from a single district on a college campus.
Cue all 11 USM fans calling MSU Highway 82 High School… **
More opportunities for dual enrollment (at State).
A first class high school would. I don’t know why changing locations will fix its problems though. Seems like a magnet school or something that goes k - 12 would be a much better deal for the university and county. But I don’t know all the details so maybe I’m misunderstanding the problems they are trying to solve.
This is good news for Starkville and Mississippi State.
New Starkville High School being constructed on Mississippi State campus
The project is the first of its kind in the nation, housing all 9th through 12th grade high school students from a single district on a college campus.
Not very innovative as it is fairly common to have a high school on a university campus.
It sounds like the main problem is they just need a bigger facility. Putting it on State's campus allows for more cross-pollination between the College of Education and the high school.
Yea, and the next HS of the same size to be built will be the most expensive high school in the state.
Did they gain a new fan?
One for sports and one for performing arts that can also be used for sports.
That's a very expensive high school. Does it include new sports facilities as well? Since they'll be on campus, why not just use Davis Wade, etc.?
In my opinion, and it is shared by many - one of the barriers to MSU hiring innovative faculty is the condition of Starkville High School. They don't want their kids going to a school with a lot of deferred maintenance. A $105 million state of the art campus on MSU's campus fixes that.
The article calls out a performing arts building too so thinks it’s two gyms. One is probably a practice gym that also has seating if I had to guess. Not sure volleyball would get its own gym?
I thought I’d give @11thEagleFan his props
Correct, this is simply a new building (that is needed) but will do nothing to correct the recruiting issues we have with our local school system. Sadly, you will still have a student population that is almost 80% free/reduced lunch eligible and that translates to home lives that do not care about education. The same stuff was said about the Partnership school, and all it has done is move the issues to a new building.
Rendering in the article shows a field house, covered practice field, and another practice field. Don’t think you’d want a high school game in Davis Wade on Friday night ahead of a Saturday game. In addition to the field potentially being torn up you’ve got logistics already going into place for tailgating, parking and traffic ahead of Saturday.
There's an existing gym at the current middle school that's referenced in the material with seating just on one side. They're building another, much larger gym with the new high school.
It's amazing how much progress is held back across the state because we don't want to admit we don't know how to help certain people. School choice wouldn't fix bad home environments, but it would fix so many things for the state. So many places across the state are hard to recruit to because they come with a hefty private tuition if you have kids. Hell, even in places with good schools, we overinflated house prices by basically lumping in tuition to a certain school with home prices.
In all the complaining about how subpar the school options are in Starkville and the surrounding area, I've never heard needing a bigger facility listed.
That would probably be helpful, and would also be nice to offer dual enrollment classes on the highschool campus.
Why is that? I mean, I get there's not a big population there. But it seems there is a big enough population wanting better than Starkville high school or Starkville academy that it could support a magnet school.
It doesn't matter if it's in the city or not. The city district was consolidated with the county district several years ago.
Mississippi's school rating heavily weights student growth, which is a very good thing to rate, but lots of parents, particularly those MSU might be recruiting, are going to care about absolute proficiency as much as student growth. Not sure what Starkville's rating is driven by, so that point may not apply to it. But if it's a B on proficiency but pulled up to an A because of student improvement, that's not going to satisfy a lot of people.
They are moving students from the partnership school to the old high school building?Why?
Both my adult children went to Starkville High. One did do MSMS, but neither had any problems at SHS, and both are successful professionals. SHS has some problems, but it does a pretty good job especially for those who take advantage of AP/dual enrollment/arts/etc. It's like two schools under one roof honestly. One of the better in the state actually.
This is true. However, I can tell you that the students we are talking about do extremely well at Starkville High School, and at any other one to be honest.
The dirty secret across MS (The Mississippi Miracle) is that they simply started teaching the test. This is not Starkville specific, but for any of you thinking that MS public education improved overnight.... you might as well fly to work on your pet dragon.
The biggest thing that would be helpful and also easy to collect (ignoring politics or regulatory issues related to tying identifying information to test scores) would be scores grouped by socioeconomic status and parental status (e..g, married, divorced, never married, employed, unemployed, highest level of education, etc). But I can think of lots of data that would be nice to have if I ran the world. IQ scores and proficiency scores from before or right after kindergarten, 4th, 8th, and 12th grades would be interesting. Hell, I'd throw in BMI, height, and race and anything else that can easily be measured, even if it might only be of interest to researchers and not parents. And parental IQ if I was king for a day.
Fun Fact: The story of Dazed and Confused took place on May 28, 2976, just over 50 years ago. The soundtrack still rocks.
I strongly suspect Mississippi is far from the only state that teaches to the test.
