2021 State of Pre-K: Access to Pre-K, 2017-2018

STATE OF PRE-K SERIES: BRIEF SEPTEMBER 2021

Access to Pre-K, 2017-2018 Research Brief by Rachel Canter and Micayla Tatum

INTRODUCTION Access to quality pre-K has long been an advocacy focus of Mississippi First. When we began our work over a decade ago, we immediately found it apparent that the state had no easily accessible source of information quantifying four-year-olds’ access to pre-K, let alone their access to quality pre-K, at either the state or community levels. We set out to change this, first by analyzing available Title I data to produce the Title I Preliminary Report in 2012 and then by publishing our first pre-K report, the State of Public Pre-K in 2011-2012. This latter report was the first of its kind to estimate program seats for both public school and Head Start programs at the district level in Mississippi.

In the second iteration of our report, we were able to estimate an overall pre-K access rate for four-year-olds across all providers by combining data from public schools, Head Start, and licensed childcare. This herculean effort, which examined the 2014-2015 school year, gave us our first true look at pre-K access statewide. It also allowed us to see how public access had changed since 2011-2012.

This report attempts our third look at access to pre-K and again combines data from public schools, Head Start, and licensed childcare. As in our previous work, we calculate pre-K access rates for the state, each county, and each school district. We report overall access rates for four-year-olds (access to all types of pre-K combined) by county and report public pre-K access rates for public kindergarteners by school district. Finally, we provide context and analysis, including an examination of how access has changed since our last report.

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND LONG-TERM TRENDS In this brief, we find that pre-K access for four-year-olds across all provider types shrank slightly since 2014-2015, from 69.55% to 67.29%.1 Access to public pre-K for entering public school kindergarteners was nearly identical as before, 43.65% in 2014-2015 compared to 43.56% in 2017-2018. For both calculations, we estimate that seats in programs— particularly Head Start and childcare—declined overall. Growth in blended Head Start and school district pre-K programs, as well as collaborative seats, could not overcome the deep declines in other types of pre-K. Statewide, these declines in seats were matched by similar declines in the population of four-year-olds or entering kindergarteners, which is why overall declines in access were small.

The slight decreases in access statewide are the first we have seen since we began this report series, although neither the decline in seats nor population is new. In fact, one of the clearest long-term trends arising from our data over the last three reports is that the four-year-old population, and subsequently the number of entering public school kindergarteners, is shrinking. This population decline mirrors the overall population decline in the state, particularly among the state’s younger residents. Population trends are complex, but the data show a clear correlation between the decrease in the number of young adults and the number of new births in the state (Nargund, 2009). Furthermore,

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the young adults who remain in the state are producing fewer children than in previous generations as is illustrated by the decline in live births: in 2019, there were 36,634 live births, down from 46,046 live births in 2006 (Mississippi State Department of Health, 2006; Mississippi State Department of Health, 2019). Since Mississippi does not have a great influx of families with young children (Ganucheau & McKenzie, 2021), most of the population of young children in the state were born here. In short, fewer births means fewer four-year-olds.

As population loss continues, pre-K programs in the state will feel a financial squeeze since these programs are almost always funded based on enrollment. The 2017-2018 reduction in four-year-old children attending pre-K is small in the statewide context (approximately four fewer children per county); however, these enrollment reductions are not uniform. More rural counties, especially Delta counties, experienced greater declines.

Over time, not only will this loss of funding lead to fewer pre-K seats and the possibility of closure for some providers, but it could also jeopardize the quality that programs provide. It is very expensive to provide quality pre-K environments, and classrooms need to be full or nearly full to have enough resources to meet standards. We believe the pre-K community must act now to counteract the loss of seats by strategically aligning its resources.

We recommend an expansion of the state-funded pre-K program as that is the only program that requires intentional collaboration among pre-K stakeholders in a community. The process of collaboration ensures that communities are leveraging their existing resources to their maximum extent while having a community-wide plan for serving every child. The state-funded pre-K program also holds programs to gold standard quality.

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We believe that Mississippi should better utilize the blended Head Start model. Over the last 10 years, we have seen Head Start enrollment for four-year-olds decline by 50% statewide. By working to establish more blended programs, Mississippi can ensure that federal Head Start resources continue to be available to the children who need them and extend access to quality pre-K seats in communities across the state.

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Though this report is focused on pre-K, we do want to note that the declining population of young children will also have a profound effect on K-12 schooling. Like pre-K funding, K-12 funding is based on student enrollment. Each year, the population of entering kindergarteners diminishes statewide; but like the decline in four-year-old pre-K enrollment, this decrease is not uniform across districts. Some communities are rapidly dwindling even while a few outliers gain population. The districts that lose students face reduced state and federal dollars. Once enrollment dips below a certain level, those districts will no longer be able to provide a quality education on their own. In the three-year period between the last pre-K report and this one, the legislature merged 10 school districts due to poor performance and shrinking enrollment, with more almost certainly to come. Because this is a statewide problem, we believe the legislature will need to focus on this issue in coming years.

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Please note that in this report we use enrollment numbers for calculations rather than capacity numbers as we did in the 2014-2015 report. In order to do comparisons across years, we recalculated access rates based on enrollment numbers for 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 using our historic data set. Please see the section on Capacity versus Enrollment for more information.

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CLASSIFICATION OF PROVIDERS AND PROGRAMS In this report, we categorize center-based pre-K providers into three main types—public school districts, Head Start, and licensed childcare. Further definitions of each provider type is below; for more information about these types, please see our explainer.

Public School District

Head Start

Licensed Childcare

Public school district programs are operated by public school districts regardless of funding source, including programs that blend funds from districts and Head Start (referred to as “blended Head Start”). We separately list blended Head Start seat counts when relevant.

Head Start programs include all programs operated by grantees of the federal Office of Head Start, whether or not those programs are also licensed childcare centers. At least 90% of enrollees in Head Start centers must come from families whose incomes fall below 100% of federal poverty guidelines. We do not include blended Head Start programs within Head Start figures since we count these as a subset of the public school numbers.

Licensed childcare includes all private childcare facilities licensed by the state, excluding Head Start programs. Where we designate “public childcare seats,” we are referring to childcare seats that are part of the state-funded pre-K program.

Additionally, we report data from the state-funded collaborative pre-K program established by the Early Learning Collaborative Act of 2013. Because the collaborative program includes all types of providers, their counts are part of the relevant provider counts. We separately discuss the program’s impact when helpful.

Throughout this document, we refer to providers as offering either public or private programs. Public programs are totally or primarily publicly funded through federal, state, or local taxes, while private programs are primarily privately funded, such as through tuition or other non-governmental means.

Some programs—like all Head Starts and most public schools—are exclusively publicly funded. Licensed childcare centers are typically funded through private means, but some may offer seats funded or subsidized through public means, such as if they participate in the state-funded collaborative program.

METHODOLOGY AND LIMITATIONS This report combines multiple, sometimes overlapping, data sources to estimate pre-K access at the state, county, and school district levels.

Because no single agency collects and maintains data about pre-K, we use data obtained from the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE), the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH), the federal Office of Head Start, the state Office of Head Start Collaboration, local school districts, and local Head Start grantees. Requesting, receiving, verifying, and aligning each of these data sets was a tremendous challenge, made worse by lengthy delays due in part to the pandemic as well as the elimination of some data sources since our last report.

A detailed description of each data source is provided in the Definitions and Sources appendix (Appendix B). Where possible, we verified reported 2

See the Head Start discussion for an explanation of this case.

numbers through a secondary source or by confirming directly with a provider. While we were sometimes unable to use two sources or direct verification to check the reliability of some numbers, we were able to check the data for internal consistency by ensuring that each county’s data aligned with district data since counties are comprised of district data. Where measures for the same community did not align, we made corrections based on the best information available. When a primary source contained missing data, we used a secondary source to fill in the value. In the single instance where multiple data sources still left us with a missing case, we imputed a number based on the best available information.2

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CAPACITY VERSUS ENROLLMENT All the numbers we use for access rates in this report are based on actual enrollment, regardless of provider type. In our previous report, we used capacity numbers for school districts, blended Head Starts, and childcare when quantifying access.3 “Capacity” is a measure of how many children a program could serve at a maximum. A program’s capacity often exceeds its enrollment, which is a measure of how many children are actually served.

Some programs could fill their maximum capacity several times over while other programs struggle to fill even half of available seats. There could be many reasons why programs have excess capacity. These reasons include cost (as in the case of private childcare or tuition-based public school programs), lack of available regular transportation, a mismatch between the location of a program within a county and the residence of a family, a lack of before or after care, or simply a parent’s choice not to place their child in that particular program or any program.

We previously used capacity numbers to quantify access rates because we believe it most accurately reflects the percentage of children for whom no seat is available, even if all other barriers (cost, transportation, location, hours, choice, etc.) are overcome. The agencies overseeing pre-K programs statewide, however, primarily concern themselves with enrollment because funding is typically based on enrollment. Even when programs are licensed or funded for a maximum number of children, these numbers do not necessarily reflect true capacity. Childcare centers, for example, are licensed for all children under age six, not by age or cohort (pre-K4, pre-K3, etc.). A childcare center with a license to serve 100 children may serve anywhere from 0-100 four-year-olds, so using licensure numbers as a proxy for four-year-old capacity would wildly inflate the data. Head Start centers, similarly, are funded for a maximum number of children.

However, Head Start centers, which have a primary focus on four-year-old pre-K, can choose to serve three-year-olds or four-year-olds or reduce their available seats and use the money to increase quality. Therefore, we also cannot use funded “slots” to estimate four-year-old capacity at Head Start centers. The closest we can get to capacity at school districts is to note the number of operating classrooms with the assumption that class sizes are capped at 20 per state guidelines, if school districts completed the optional questions collecting classroom information on the Consolidated Federal Programs Application.

As a result of this context, the only way to collect capacity figures across all provider types is to survey each individual provider. In years past, we directly surveyed school districts for both capacity and enrollment, and we received capacity and enrollment data for childcare centers from a survey conducted by a state contractor for the Mississippi Department of Human Services (DHS). We also surveyed Head Start centers, but we were only able to accurately reflect enrollment for non-blended seats. Conducting the school district and Head Start surveys required an overwhelming amount of staff time for Mississippi First and led to delays when we had to focus on other projects. For this third report, we wanted to try to streamline data collection by relying on partners to collect data through their ongoing oversight activities, just as we had with the state contractor for DHS. This plan did not work as we had hoped because partners’ surveys were often not as extensive as our own and some of the questions were optional, meaning not all providers completed them. Furthermore, between the last report and this one, DHS canceled the contract with the organization doing the comprehensive childcare survey, and the new vendor moved to a much less detailed, every-third-year data collection process. This left us with missing or incomplete data across all provider types after our initial data collection phase. Although we worked to find alternate sources, some data simply no longer exist in the absence of a comprehensive survey.

This situation had the greatest impact on our ability to use capacity data for school districts and childcare centers. What data we were able to collect through partners was almost entirely enrollment based, so we decided to move forward with completing and cleaning enrollment figures for all provider types. Comparisons to published 2014-2015 numbers and rates may show a substantial reduction in access in some instances (childcare or school district) when in fact the number of children served is mostly consistent. For this report, we recalculated 2014-2015 numbers and rates based on enrollments for all providers to ensure our comparisons were based on similar data.

Please note that we use the terms “enrollment” and “seats” interchangeably in this report, even though actual capacity (typically referred to as “seats” elsewhere) may exceed enrollment in some instances.

In some instances, we used enrollment when capacity numbers were not available. These instances were few relative to the number of data points we collected for the 2014-2015 report.

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DATA SOURCES Since the data for this report comes from multiple sources, constructing our data set required several more steps than in prior reports. Below, we describe our data sources and methodology for each provider type. The Definitions and Sources appendix (Appendix B) contains more information on the origin and parameters of each data source. We also provide an appendix for each provider type showing the source of each number used in this analysis.

PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT DATA We had several sources of information to help us estimate the number of children enrolled in non-blended public school pre-K programs, including two sources of enrollment for all or most programs, one source of capacity (classrooms) for some programs, and one source of the number of employed pre-K teachers. Finally, we also had survey data from 2018-2019 that asked parents of entering kindergarteners to report where their child attended pre-K in 2017-2018. Each of these sources provided slightly different information of varying completeness and reliability, and sometimes these sources did not align.

Our most complete and reliable source of information comes from the spring 2018 state pre-kindergarten assessment. This data, publicly available on MDE’s website, provides the total number of pre-K children by school or site who participated in the assessment at the end of their pre-K year. The assessment report includes collaborative sites and all other public school pre-K sites, including many blended Head Start sites. This report provides the most complete list of districts and schools with pre-K students; however, it suppresses numbers at individual sites or districts where fewer than 10 children participated in the assessment. Nonetheless, all our school district data (including for collaborative classrooms in school districts) primarily comes from this source. We then used four other sources—enrollment data, Head Start data, classroom data, and teacher licensure data—to verify our numbers.

MDE provides enrollment data reported by districts on the MDE website. MDE reports enrollment as either “pre-kindergarten” or “special education pre-kindergarten.” The former category represents children enrolled in regular education classrooms while the latter represents children enrolled in selfcontained special education programs.4 However, we found the MDE enrollment data was often not comprehensive, and it sometimes suppresses data in ways that are inexplicable. Nonetheless, the information was useful in verifying the student test-taker data, particularly in determining whether the information from the assessment data actually reflected enrollment in special education-only programs. By checking each school district’s assessment data against enrollment data, we were able to verify nearly all of the test-taker data and adjust any of those numbers to remove special education-only program enrollment (see below for why). As a third check, we compared the number of reported regular education classrooms, if available, to the testtaker numbers. Because the state limits class sizes to 20 students per classroom, enrollment figures should not exceed classroom numbers when dividing by 20. In cases where there appear far more classrooms than enrollment, we could also check the number of licensed teachers, if available, to see if the district had classrooms of 10. These checks did not alter our numbers as the data were consistent.

In this report, we exclude special education-only seats in school districts as we did in previous reports. We do this because enrollment in special education pre-K may not always represent full-week, classroom-based education as sometimes these children are served through itinerant services or may only receive classroom-based services a few days a week. These seats can fluctuate year to year based on the actual number of children a district is required to serve and may not be an accurate representation of generally available pre-K programs. Although access to special education-only pre-K is sometimes access to classroom-based, full-day pre-K, regular education pre-K seats best represent access to pre-K as they are available to all children regardless of disability status and always mean classroom-based pre-K. Finally, because special education populations are small, special educationonly program numbers are often suppressed, making it hard to know exactly how many children are served. For a list of districts that offered special education-only pre-K programs in 2017-2018, as well as the total number served if available, please see Appendix C.

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BLENDED HEAD START DATA Blended Head Start data, as a program subtype, is not available anywhere.

This is because blended seats are often included in enrollment counts for both school districts and Head Starts, introducing the risk of counting the same seat twice. To estimate this data and reduce the likelihood of double counting, Mississippi First cross-referenced Head Start centers’ addresses with school district addresses. (If a program is blended, the site listed in the Head Start data set will often be the local elementary school.) When we found Head Start sites that overlapped (either by site name or by address), we removed these numbers from both the district counts and the Head Start counts and placed them in their own category—blended Head Start. We also referenced our previous report to see if any previously identified blended programs did not appear in our new data set so that we could double-check program locations. For these cases, we called

federal program coordinators and checked with the Mississippi Head Start collaboration director. If we could not confirm these cases definitively (usually because staff had changed and had no historic knowledge or because we could not get responses), we made our best guess based on all available evidence.

Due to this matching method, it is possible that some of these programs are not “blended” but are Head Start programs operating onsite at an elementary school. In our previous reports, we were able to more specifically classify programs into one of these two subtypes, but because we do not have direct survey data from Head Starts this time, we counted all Head Start programs operating in an elementary school as “blended,” even if no school district money is supporting the program.

HEAD START DATA Like we did with school districts, we used a variety of sources to construct our Head Start enrollment figures. As a federally funded program, Head Start enrollment data is collected by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. However, the public can only access state aggregate data. Due to our attempt to streamline data collection, we relied on data reported by Head Start grantees to the state’s Office of Head Start Collaboration for this report. The resulting data was incomplete for two reasons. First, between 2017-2018 and when we collected data in 2019, three grantees covering nine counties lost their grants, so they did not receive or respond to the survey. The successor grantees did not have records for prior years, including our year of focus. Of the remaining grantees, six responded, which provided us results for 51 of 82 counties, or 62%. Head Start serves every county in Mississippi so we had to look to three additional sources—MSDH licensure data, MSDH inspection reports, and parent survey data.

First, we matched any MSDH childcare licensure data for Head Start centers for the 2017-2018 school year to each county to fill in gaps and to verify the survey data we did receive. Because some Head Start centers are located in elementary schools, not all Head Start centers must be licensed by MSDH and therefore do not appear in licensure data.5 Where data existed but conflicted or where we still had data holes,6 we looked

at two additional sources: actual inspection reports available on the MSDH website from the 2017-2018 school year and school district parent surveys. By comparing all these sources, we were able to produce an enrollment number for every county except one.

In general, we gave first priority to numbers from the grantee survey if other sources provided similar numbers. However, at times, we found the survey numbers to be inflated when compared to the MSDH licensure data, actual inspection reports, or the parent survey. If licensure data captured all the Head Start centers in a county and matched parent survey data, we used MSDH licensure data. However, if we still found varying information, we looked for actual inspection reports and used those numbers when they clearly identified four-year-old pre-K enrollments. In a few cases, MSDH licensure numbers conflicted significantly with parent survey data, and there were no clear inspection reports. In these cases, we used parent survey data, especially if public school pre-K data from the parent survey was comparable to our district figures. For the centers that changed grantees, parent survey data was often the only available data. For one county—Attala—we imputed a figure from parent surveys because we had no other source. The parent surveys indicated that fewer than 10 students attended Head Start in Attala in 2017-2018. To be conservative, we imputed a figure of nine. A table with the exact data source for every single center can be found in Appendix D.

There were also cases where a licensed Head Start center existed but did not appear in the MSDH-provided data because the center may not have been inspected during the time frame or the inspection report was unreadable. To ensure that we did not miss any centers, we looked at a list of centers and their addresses from publicly available Head Start reports to ensure we had enrollment data for every center. We used this method to exclude blended program seats as well.

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LICENSED CHILDCARE DATA By far, our greatest challenge in completing this report was estimating licensed childcare seats. After Governor Bryant was elected, the new administration of DHS rewrote the state’s consolidated state plan for the Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG). Before Bryant’s election, a state contractor known as the Early Years Network was using CCDBG funds to survey childcare centers monthly on a host of data points, including capacity and enrollment by age. This extremely important data source is where we received capacity, enrollment, and programmatic data for childcare centers. The federal government, however, only requires a “market rate survey” every three years for the purpose of setting reimbursement rates for federal childcare vouchers. When the Bryant plan canceled the Early Years Network contract and re-granted the funds for the survey to another contractor, the survey was reduced to the bare minimum of a survey conducted every three years and solely focused on tuition rates.

Trying to find alternate sources of childcare enrollment and capacity by age proved extremely difficult. Licensure capacity figures are not an adequate substitute because of the issues described above. This left us with two other possibilities: data compiled by MSDH across all inspections of childcare centers and copies of the original inspection reports. Although DHS oversees childcare programs, MSDH has responsibility for licensing under state law. Once a program is licensed, it must submit to periodic inspections at which time the inspector notes the number of children by age present in the center. In 2017-2018, these reports were handwritten and later entered into a database managed by MSDH. We requested and received an Excel workbook of the number of all four-year-old children by center present during an inspection in 2017-2018. The spreadsheet contained an entry for each childcare center inspected in 2017 and a separate entry for each center inspected in 2018. We combined these entries into a single spreadsheet and eliminated duplicates, prioritizing the 2017 numbers over the 2018 numbers if available. This data is our primary source for childcare enrollment. However, this source has a few issues.

The most basic issue is that a center had to be inspected while children

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were present during the time frame for the center to appear in the database. This is why we used both 2017 and 2018 inspections to try to catch all possibilities. The next issue is that the handwritten reports that serve as the source for the spreadsheet are sometimes very difficult to read or interpret. This could arise from a simple legibility issue or may be a more complex problem because the information provided was not specific enough. For example, many childcare centers have multi-age classrooms. Depending on the inspector, enrollment may be reported as “3-4” or “3-5” instead of by age within the classroom. When these reports are entered in the MSDH database, someone must decide how to input the information. If the numbers are illegible or missing, the enrollment might not be entered, meaning the center did not show when we requested information about centers serving four-year-olds. In other cases, a number may be entered that reflects all children present in a classroom primarily serving four-year-olds, inflating the number of pre-K4 students. Finally, this spreadsheet also contained the population of Head Start centers, which must be licensed, so we had to remove those entries. We did this using a name search as well as address matching with Head Start centers.

Calling each childcare center in the state (or surveying them) to verify the remaining childcare numbers was beyond our capacity. Instead, we used two different methods to verify these numbers. First, we compared the list of centers and their enrollment to all the centers and their enrollment in our 2014-2015 report. When the 2014-2015 report showed a center not on our 2017-2018 list, we checked the MSDH website and performed a simple Google search to see if that center was still in operation. If it was, we then tried to review the actual MSDH inspection reports from the time to see if we could find an estimate of four-year-olds. This led to our identifying additional centers for inclusion. We also used MSDH inspection reports when the spreadsheet showed a very different enrollment number than what we had in 2014-2015 for the same center. In these cases, we checked inspection reports to see if the number had been entered wrongly into the database. If so, we updated the figure and noted the date of the inspection report. A list of all included childcare centers, their enrollment, and the date of the inspection report of reference7 can be found in Appendix E.

Since the spreadsheet is based on inspection reports, it included the exact report of reference when we received it, so we have exact report dates for every entry.

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CONSTRUCTING ACCESS RATES Once we had a defensible data set for each provider type, we constructed two different types of access rates—access to pre-K for four-year-olds in 2017-2018 and access to public pre-K for entering 2018-2019 public school kindergarteners (meaning access these children had the prior year when they were four). The former is a more complete access rate as it includes all children and all pre-K program types, not just those children who attended public pre-K and eventually went to public school. However, the latter access rate allows us to understand low- or no-cost pre-K access at the school district level for children in our public schools.

conversely, the “district average rate” is the average of each district’s access rate.

PRE-K ACCESS RATES FOR FOUR-YEAR-OLDS

PUBLIC PRE-K ACCESS RATES FOR KINDERGARTENERS

We calculate pre-K access rates for four-year-olds— access to pre-K for four-year-olds in 2017-2018 across all provider types—for the state as well as each county.

We calculate public pre-K access rates for kindergarteners—prior year access to public pre-K for entering 2018-2019 public school kindergarteners—for the state and each district.

We calculate pre-K access rates for four-year-olds—access to pre-K for four-year-olds in 2017-2018 across all provider types—for the state as well as each county. To do this, we add up all the available pre-K seats in the geographic area of focus and divide by the estimated number of four-year-olds in that area.8 The “overall state access rate,” therefore, is not an average of the county access rates. Instead, after we report each county’s access rate, we report an “average county access rate.” Please note that for the handful of counties where we found excess capacity— enrollment exceeding the estimated number of four-year-olds residing in that county—we report a “capped” access rate of 100%. This means that the average county access rate uses these capped rates, where applicable.

The statewide rate, as a summary of all children and all seats, does not cap any numbers.

with multiple school districts. Head Start centers do keep local records of where children transition, but there is no central location to access this information. In the past, we were able to receive transition data directly from Head Start centers to allocate these counts correctly across school districts, but this was not possible this time due to the pandemic, changing data systems, partner data collection, and changing grantees.

For single-district counties, we use Head Start counts (non-blended) as our transition source. For counties with multiple districts, we rely on a combination of parent survey data, Head Start data, and blended Head Start data to impute transition figures as best as possible. The parent survey data can sometimes be unreliable as parents may only report the program where their child started or finished the year but not where their child spent the majority of the school year. If a seat is blended, there is no separate category on the survey and the fact that a seat is blended also might not be obvious to parents, leading them to assign the child either to Head Start or the school district. This can lead to over- or undercounting enrollment, which is why we used the parent survey only when no other sources were available. In general, though, parent survey data aligns to our Head Start and school district data sources, so we can be reasonably sure that it is an accurate reflection of transition data, except when otherwise noted. However, we urge you to view these numbers as estimates and interpret them with caution, especially on an individual school district level. The exact source of transition figures can be found in Appendix F.

Please note that we report overall access rates by county only because childcare seats are difficult to allocate to any unit of geography as they have no legal enrollment boundaries. As we did in our previous report, we assume that childcare seats will primarily serve children in the county in which a childcare center is located. Because there will be cases in which children attend childcare in different counties, our county rates are estimates, with the possibility that some measurement error is inevitable.

We also calculate public pre-K access rates for kindergarteners— prior year access to public pre-K for entering 2018-2019 public school kindergarteners—for the state and each district. The state rate for kindergarteners reflects all kindergarteners and their prior enrollment; 8

For public pre-K access rates for kindergarteners, we had to make some assumptions about which pre-K students matriculated to which school districts. We assumed that the same number of children who attended a district’s pre-K program transitioned into that district for kindergarten, just as we did in the prior report. Head Start serves children on a countywide basis, so there is not an easy way to match center enrollment counts to where children will transition to kindergarten in counties

All our estimates of the four-year-old population in an area are from the U.S. Census. See the Definitions and Sources appendix for more information.

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ACCESS TO PRE-K FOR FOUR-YEAR-OLDS STATEWIDE IN 2017-2018 Overall, the Mississippi pre-K access rate for four-year-olds across provider types was 67.29% in 2017-2018. This rate represents the total percentage of four-year-old children served statewide when combining enrollments across provider types (public school districts, Head Start, and licensed childcare).

This rate does not mean that 67.29% of four-year-old children in every locality had access to pre-K, only that there was a seat in a program somewhere in the state for at least 67.29% of the state’s population of four-year-old children.

Public School District

Head Start

Public school districts enrolled 16.96% of four year-olds, including 13.33% in district-only seats and 3.63% in blended Head Start seats.

Head Start enrolled 23.57% of four-year-olds.

Licensed Childcare

Licensed childcare enrolled 26.76% of four-year-olds.

Of the children served above, 6.39% (2,399) were part of the state-funded collaborative pre-K program, which includes all provider types.

FOUR-YEAR-OLD CHILDREN WITH NO ACCESS TO PRE-K STATEWIDE IN 2017-2018 An estimated 32.71% of four-year-olds statewide had no access to any licensed pre-K program. This rate represents the total percentage of four-year-old children who were not served statewide across provider types (public schools districts, Head Start, and licensed childcare). This rate does not mean that 32.71% of four-year-old children in every locality did not have access to pre-K, only that there were no seats in a program somewhere in the state for approximately one-third of the state’s population of four-year-old children.

CHANGES IN ACCESS TO PRE-K FOR FOUR-YEAR-OLDS STATEWIDE SINCE 2014-2015 We estimate that the 2017-2018 statewide access rate for four-year-olds shrank slightly from 2014-2015 (67.29% versus 69.55% or a difference of -2.26 percentage points). As this is a small difference, it is possible this is measurement error either in the estimated number of four-year-olds statewide or in reported enrollments. Because access is a ratio of the number of available seats to the number of four-year-olds, changes to either seat counts or the four-year-old population can affect the overall rate. Since our last report, both figures have changed.

The population of four-year-olds in Mississippi is steadily decreasing. In 2014-2015, there were an estimated 39,319 four-year-olds in Mississippi.9 By 2017-2018, there were only 37,558 four-year-olds. This change reflects the downward trend in four-year-olds since we began this report series in 2011, when there were 43,857 four-year-olds. We believe this population loss may have profound effects not only on pre-K provision in the state but also K-12 schooling. Please see the Executive Summary and Long-Term Trends section for more discussion.

9 In our previous report, we used 2010 figures for children under 1 to estimate four-year-olds (based on birth cohort). However, in this report, we use bridged race-population estimates by age and county from the Census (using a CDC population tool) for all population numbers. This information more accurately reflects the four-year-old population in a county (and the state) at the exact moment in time of our report. Please see the Definitions and Sources appendix for more information about these numbers.

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Similarly to the decline in population, we also found that there were fewer children enrolled in pre-K in 2017-2018 than in previous years. In 2017-2018, there were 25,271 children enrolled in pre-K seats statewide across all providers, which represents a decrease since 2014-2015 when there were an estimated 27,345 pre-K children enrolled.10 Because the enrollment decline was slightly greater than the estimated population loss (2,074 versus 1,761), it led to a small contraction of pre-K access statewide.

The decline in seats statewide was not uniform. Compared to 2014-2015, Head Start experienced the largest decline in enrollment, moving from

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10,943 seats in 2014-2015 to 8,851 seats in 2017-2018, a 2,092-seat loss—nearly 20%. The only good news is that Head Start did not lose seats as quickly in this three-year span as it did between our first two reports (2011-2012 to 2014-2015) when Head Start lost approximately 5,000 seats or 31%. Like Head Start, childcare also experienced a loss, though not as great. Childcare shrank from 11,235 seats to 10,049 seats in 2017-2018, a 1,186-seat loss (11%).

The two pre-K types that grew—district and blended—did not grow fast enough to offset the loss of seats in Head Start and childcare.

WHAT MIGHT EXPLAIN DECLINING HEAD START SEATS? From 2014 to 2017, Head Start seats declined by more than 10 in more than half of counties statewide (47). Since Head Start is the single largest provider of publicly funded pre-K seats—and second largest provider of seats for four-year-olds (after childcare)—this decline is worrisome. To better understand whether this phenomenon was related to increased enrollment at other providers, we regressed the change in seats by provider type (district, blended, and childcare) against the decline in Head Start seats. We also included the countywide change in four-yearold population in this time period as a variable (fewer children means enrollment is likely to decline). Together, these possibilities explained about half of the variation in the data (R2=.488), meaning that other factors likely played a role in the change in Head Start seats.

Importantly, we want to stress that we are not able to assign causality to any of these relationships as this is observational data. In other words, although two variables may rise and fall together or one variable may rise while another falls, we cannot say that one change causes another without additional research or information. A new district seat, for example, may be the result of a lost Head Start seat rather than its cause, and each case may be different. What we report here are only the relationships between variables and our best analysis of them.

One ongoing concern in the Head Start community is that the growth of district pre-K seats will mean children who are eligible for Head Start will instead be served by districts, leaving Head Start unable to fill their classrooms. The funds for these seats will then go unused even as some children in the community have no access to pre-K (since Head Start can only serve children eligible by income or disability status, they cannot serve all-comers). With the caveat that we cannot ascribe causality to any of our findings, our regression did not indicate a simple story of district pre-K supplanting Head Start. In fact, our evidence shows that the addition of blended Head Start has the strongest relationship to the decline in Head Start: holding all else constant and on average, every

new blended seat is associated with a decline of nearly 1.1 Head Start seats. This finding is strongly statistically significant and has a relatively small standard error (.13). This indicates that where blended Head Start exists, it does play a substitution role. Between 2014 and 2017, blended enrollment grew statewide by 297 across 20 counties, up from 13 counties.

Since blended Head Start achieves many of the same goals as traditional Head Start—and crucially does not result in a reduction of resources flowing into a community—this substitution is not necessarily bad for Head Start, although it may require different ways of working or changes in how Head Start grantees operate. However, blended Heat Start is still an extremely small part of the overall pre-K community, serving only 3.63% of four-year-olds in 2017-2018, compared to the 23.57% served in traditional Head Start.

Looking closely at individual counties, we find that blended seats replaced both Head Start seats and district seats in about half of the counties that had blended seats in 2017-2018 (11). In an additional two counties, both blended seats and district seats grew for a total of 13 counties in which blended seats grew while Head Start declined. This substitution was not perfect, though, as the new blended seats were frequently fewer than the lost Head Start and/or district seats, causing a net loss of seats in those instances.

This context led us to run another regression—the change in provider type and population on blended seats. This regression showed that blended seat changes have a very similar relationship to both district and Head Start changes (-.47 and -.43, respectively), all else constant and on average. The standard error for these coefficients was even smaller than in the first regression—.08 and .05, respectively—and the statistical significance was just as strong, if not stronger. This suggests that blended seats are about as likely to replace or be replaced by both district seats and Head Start seats. When we looked at the data, we found eight counties that experienced a decline in blended seats, with half of these counties

In our 2014-2015 public report, we used a capacity figure of 31,450 for total seats. However, since our 2017-2018 report relies solely on enrollments, we recalculated an enrollment number of 27,345 total seats based on our previous data set.

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losing programs entirely. As the regression indicated, we found that blended Head Start seats were replaced with district seats alone in only four of these counties. In the other four counties, blended seats were replaced either by Head Start-only seats or both Head Start and district seats.

Since blended programs are partnerships between local Head Start providers and local school districts, it makes sense that a strong relationship would exist among them. But what about district seats? Our original regression (provider change on Head Start) did find a statistically significant relationship between the change in Head Start and the change in district seats, although this association was not nearly as large as that of the change in blended. On average and holding all else constant, every new district seat was associated with a .55-seat decline in Head Start (i.e., every two new district seats was associated with one lost seat in traditional Head Start). When we took a closer look at individual cases, in a majority of counties that lost Head Start children (34 of 47), district seats either also declined (though sometimes not as steeply) or remained unchanged. Only 13 counties in which Head Start declined saw district seats grow by more than 10 (including two where both district and blended seats grew). Though we cannot reject the premise that district

Provider Type Head Start Blended District

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seats may be crowding out Head Start, the evidence is not very compelling that growing district seats is the primary driver of these changes, and again, it is not possible to tell which comes first—the loss of Head Start or the addition of district seats.

Finally, we wanted to look at whether population shifts explained Head Start declines. Here, we found a statistically significant positive relationship: all else being equal and on average, every additional fouryear-old in a county was associated with an increase of .27 Head Start seats. The reverse would also be true—every fewer four-year-old was associated with a loss of .27 Head Start seats. When we ran a regression for each of the publicly funded types that included population change as a variable, we found that only Head Start had a statistically significant relationship with it.

As a result of all this information, we see no clear culprit behind the long-term decline in Head Start seats; instead, multiple factors play a role, including general population declines. In the table below, we provide a summary of the provider types as well as the variables with statistically significant associations in their order of strength. Coefficients and standard errors are provided in parentheses.

Variable with Strongest Associations Blended (-1.1/.13), District (-.55/.14), Population (.27/.11) District (-.47/.08), Head Start (-.43/.05), Childcare (-.24/.10) Blended (-.63/.11), Childcare (-.62/.09), Head Start (-.29/.08)

WHAT SHOULD THE STATE DO ABOUT DECLINING HEAD START ENROLLMENT? To ensure that all pre-K dollars can be used to provide maximum benefit to children, we recommend that Head Start and school districts place a greater focus on establishing blended Head Start, which offers benefits to both school districts and Head Start. Head Start can count blended seats towards their enrollment goals while districts can take advantage of Head Start funding, which is typically more generous per pupil than district funding. Blended Head Start also enables children to access comprehensive health, transportation, and parental engagement resources often unique to Head Start.

Blended programs are better able to ensure higher levels of quality and academic alignment between pre-K and later K-12 experiences. Increasing blended programs would also preserve federal funds already present in a community that evaporate when Head Start cannot meet their enrollment.

Despite these benefits, fewer than a quarter of counties currently offer blended programs. We believe blended Head Start provides one of the greatest areas of opportunity for the pre-K community.

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PRE-K ACCESS FOR FOUR-YEAR-OLDS

BY COUNTY IN 2017-2018 We calculated an average county access rate of 70.96% for 2017-2018, which is a -1.70-percentage point decrease since 2014-2015.11 Having an average county rate that is higher than the statewide rate (67.29%) indicates that Mississippi pre-K seats are clustered in specific counties rather than available uniformly across counties. This is also consistent with our previous findings.

In the lists below, we divide counties into those with above-average, average, and below-average access. We use one standard deviation above and below the mean to classify counties. Therefore, “above average” is one standard deviation above the mean, “average” is within one standard deviation above and below the mean, and “below average” is one standard deviation below the mean. We also split counties with average access rates into two groups: counties with an average access rate above the mean and counties with an average access rate below the mean. Counties marked with an asterisk were subject to the 100% cap.

Please note that Sharkey and Issaquena counties are counted together in the data due to their small populations and the fact that they are served by the same school district.

Counties with Above-Average Access to Pre-K 1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

Benton County (100%)* Calhoun County (100%) Claiborne County (100%)* Clarke County (100%)* Humphreys County (100%)* Sharkey-Issaquena Counties (98%)

7. Grenada County (97%) 8. Attala County (96%) 9. Washington County (95%) 10. Covington County (94%) 11. Hinds County (94%) 12. Jefferson County (93%)

13. Choctaw County (91%) 14. Jefferson Davis County (91%) 15. Warren County (91%) 16. Wilkinson County (91%)

Counties with Average Access to Pre-K (Above the Mean) 1. Sunflower County (87%) 2. Lee County (86%) 3. Tallahatchie County (86%) 4. Holmes County (85%) 5. Adams County (84%) 6. Leflore County (81%) 7. Alcorn County (80%) 8. Pike County (80%) 9. Prentiss County (80%) 10. Coahoma County (80%) 11. Wayne County (79%)

12. Clay County (78%) 13. Franklin County (78%) 14. Lafayette County (77%) 15. Noxubee County (77%) 16. Lincoln County (76%) 17. Stone County (76%) 18. Yalobusha County (76%) 19. Quitman County (75%) 20. Tippah County (75%) 21. Tunica County (75%) 22. Panola County (74%)

23. Itawamba County (73%) 24. Kemper County (73%) 25. Scott County (73%) 26. Bolivar County (72%) 27. Copiah County (72%) 28. Forrest County (72%) 29. Monroe County (72%) 30. Tishomingo County (72%)

Please note that the average county access rate is an average of each county’s access rate rather than a rate of all seats and students statewide. Remember that we use “capped” access rate numbers for counties (a maximum of 100%) and the average reflects these capped rates for the four applicable counties.

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Counties with Average Access to Pre-K (Below the Mean) 1.

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Lowndes County (71%) Lauderdale County (67%) Union County (67%) George County (65%) Lawrence County (65%) Neshoba County (65%) Pearl River County (64%) Walthall County (64%)

9. Yazoo County (64%) 10. Chickasaw County (62%) 11. Amite County (61%) 12. Jasper County (61%) 13. Winston County (60%) 14. Jackson County (59%) 15. Newton County (58%) 16. Simpson County (58%)

17. Leake County (57%) 18. Marshall County (57%) 19. Montgomery County (57%) 20. Tate County (57%) 21. Marion County (55%) 22. Harrison County (53%)

Counties with Below-Average Access to Pre-K 1.

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Jones County (51%) Rankin County (50%) Smith County (49%) Hancock County (46%) Lamar County (45%) Madison County (45%)

7. Carroll County (44%) 8. DeSoto County (42%) 9. Webster County (38%) 10. Pontotoc County (35%) 11. Perry County (25%) 12. Greene County (13%)

CHANGES IN ACCESS TO PRE-K FOR FOUR-YEAR-OLDS

BY COUNTY SINCE 2014-2015 Even though the average county rate changed only slightly, we did note many significant changes on the county level. County changes range from a decline of 43.17 percentage points in Marion County to an increase of 24.56 percentage points in Covington. Most of these changes arise from the interaction between population and seat shifts rather than a single factor alone. For example, despite the fact that Adams County lost 58 seats between 2014-2015 and 2017-2018, its population decline was even more severe–a loss of 75 children. As a result, the Adams County pre-K access rate actually grew by 1.24 percentage points as fewer seats served even fewer children.

Below, we divide counties into three categories—counties where access increased, counties where access stayed the same, and counties where access declined since the last report. We label any changes of less than

one percentage point (i.e., -1.0 to 1.0) as stable, with increases and declines above or below that. For each category, we provide the old and new access rates by county as well as any significant population or seat shifts that may explain these changes. We consider population or seat changes to be “significant” if the change is a factor of 10 or more,12 which would represent the number of students that would necessitate new staff in a pre-K setting since there must be at least one new adult for every 10 students. In parentheses, we note seat types that are responsible for any net gain or loss; this does not mean the other seat types did not experience changes, just that those changes were smaller than 10. Please see Appendix G for exact changes by type. Counties that had excess capacity (and thus subject to the 100% cap) are marked with an asterisk.

12 We were not able to use error rates for population statistics for this purpose because the Census does not report error rates by age and by county. See the Definitions and Sources appendix for more information about these figures.

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Please note that this information is based on estimates of both population and enrollment for two different years. As a result, the risk of measurement error is higher than in our other analyses. Please interpret individual county results with caution.

COUNTIES WHERE ACCESS INCREASED Access increased in 34 counties, counting Sharkey and Issaquena separately. The four-year-old population was stable or declined in all but one of these counties (Union). In 25 of these counties, seats were stable or grew. In the nine counties that lost seats, the population declined more steeply, meaning fewer seats but even fewer students (e.g., Adams).

County

2014-2015 Rate

2017-2018 Rate

Change

Significant Changes

Covington

69.60%

94.16%

+24.56

Population stable; 68 net seats added (blended)

Sunflower

63.91%

86.60%

+22.69

Population down 57; 33 net seats added (Head Start)

Amite

38.06%

60.68%

+22.62

Population down 38; 12 seats added (district)

Jefferson Davis

70.20%

91.39%

+21.19

Population stable; 32 net seats added (Head Start)

Tippah

56.31%

75.09%

+18.78

Population down 40; 28 net seats added (Head Start)

Lincoln

55.14%

73.44%

+18.30

Population down 24; 66 net seats added (district)

Wayne

62.37%

79.27%

+16.90

Population down 12; 39 net seats added (district)

Stone

59.52%

76.22%

+16.70

Population down 25; 16 net seats added (childcare)

Copiah

57.14%

72.46%

+15.32

Population down 25; 43 net seats added (childcare and Head Start)

Attala

80.78%

95.60%

+14.82

Population stable; 33 net seats added (district)

Tallahatchie

71.35%

85.93%

+14.58

Population down 36; seats stable

Kemper

60.36%

72.94%

+12.58

Population down 26; seats stable

Lowndes

59.57%

70.79%

+11.22

Population down 29; 68 net seats added (Head Start and district)

Neshoba

53.98%

64.51%

+10.53

Population down 35; 25 net seats added (childcare and Head Start)

Leake

46.63%

56.64%

+10.01

Population down 40; 10 net seats added (childcare)

Union

57.81%

67.30%

+9.49

Population up 38; 62 net seats added (childcare and district)

Calhoun

91.44%

100.00%

+8.56

Population stable; 10 seats added (district)

Choctaw

82.61%

91.11%

+8.50

Population down 25; 13 seats lost (Head Start and district)

Simpson

50.00%

58.36%

+8.36

Population down 97; 24 seats lost (childcare)

Panola

65.68%

73.78%

+8.10

Population down 25; 20 net seats added (childcare and Head Start)

Alcorn

72.56%

79.96%

+7.40

Population down 32; 10 net seats added (district)

Warren

85.25%

91.33%

+6.08

Population down 40; seats stable

Pike

73.83%

79.77%

+5.94

Population down 63; 16 net seats lost (childcare and blended)

Sharkey-Issaquena

92.50%

98.41%

+5.91

Population down 17; 12 seats lost (all providers)

Walthall

58.76%

64.12%

+5.36

Population down 24; seats stable

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County

2014-2015 Rate

2017-2018 Rate

Change

Significant Changes

Hinds

88.99%

94.15%

+5.16

Population down 278; 91 net seats lost (childcare and Head Start)

Prentiss

74.63%

79.58%

+4.95

Population down 46; 20 net seats lost (Head Start)

Grenada

92.05%

96.60%

+4.55

Population stable; 13 net seats added (district)

Jones

47.02%

50.62%

+3.60

Population stable; 39 seats added (childcare)

Scott

70.56%

73.49%

+2.93

Population down 47; 22 seats lost (Head Start)

Hancock

43.41%

45.59%

+2.18

Population down 52; 12 net seats lost (childcare and Head Start)

Adams

82.47%

83.71%

+1.24

Population down 75; 58 seats lost (childcare and Head Start)

Clarke

98.91%

100.00%*

+1.09

Population down 13; seats stable

COUNTIES WHERE ACCESS STAYED THE SAME In these 10 counties, the 2017-2018 rates were within one percentage point, positive or negative, of the 2014-2015 rates. In only two counties was this phenomenon due to negligible population and seat changes (Franklin and Noxubee). In one additional county, population was up slightly while seats remained stable; however, this county, Benton, had excess capacity so the change registered as zero. In most cases, population and seats declined or increased together so that the effect was stability across years.

County

2014-2015 2017-2018 Change Rate Rate

Significant Changes

Franklin

77.78%

78.35%

+0.57

Population stable; seats stable

Lafayette

76.49%

76.82%

+0.33

Population down 65; 48 net seats lost (childcare, Head Start, and blended)

Tunica

75.32%

75.37%

+0.05

Population up 45; 34 net seats added (Head Start)

Benton

100.00%

100.00%*

0.00

Population up 11; seats stable

Claiborne

100.00%

100.00%*

0.00

Population down 15; 31 net seats lost (Head Start)

Humphreys

100.00%

100.00%*

0.00

Population down 15; 40 net seats lost (Head Start)

Noxubee

77.64%

77.07%

-0.57

Population stable; seats stable

Carroll

44.74%

44.09%

-0.65

Population down 21; 10 net seats lost (district)

Pearl River

61.53%

60.81%

-0.72

Population down 38; 28 net seats lost (Head Start and district)

Harrison

54.30%

53.34%

-0.96

Population down 80; 69 net seats lost (childcare and Head Start)

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COUNTIES WHERE ACCESS DECLINED Pre-K access declined in 38 counties. All but two of the counties that experienced population growth among four-year-old children fell into this category.

However, only in two instances did population growth alone explain the decline in access (Jefferson and Webster). Instead, declines in seats had the greatest impact on counties in this category as all but four lost pre-K seats. Those four—Oktibbeha, George, Jefferson, and Webster—had no significant changes in their seats. (Oktibbeha and George had stability in both population and seats but the vagaries of small numbers meant they ended up with small overall declines in access.) Unlike in counties where access grew, counties that experienced population decline often lost seats at a faster pace, meaning even fewer seats for the remaining population.

County

2014-2015 2017-2018 Rate Rate

Change

Significant Changes

Oktibbeha

66.02%

64.72%

-1.30

Population stable; seats stable

Yazoo

65.63%

64.33%

-1.30

Population down 10; 11 net seats lost (Head Start)

George

67.16%

64.62%

-2.54

Population stable; seats stable

Lee

88.94%

85.87%

-3.07

Population down 101; 124 net seats lost (childcare and Head Start)

Rankin

53.61%

49.82%

-3.79

Population up 55; 44 net seats lost (childcare)

Holmes

88.82%

84.86%

-3.96

Population down 62; 65 net seats lost (Head Start)

Forrest

76.52%

72.49%

-4.03

Population up 19; 26 net seats lost (Head Start and district)

Webster

42.48%

37.98%

-4.50

Population up 16; seats stable

Washington

100.00%

95.34%

-4.66

Population up 38; 111 net seats lost (Head Start)

Lauderdale

71.74%

67.04%

-4.70

Population down 64; 92 net seats lost (Head Start and district)

DeSoto

46.53%

41.53%

-5.00

Population up 50; 92 net seats lost (childcare and district)

Winston

65.23%

60.22%

-5.01

Population down 75; 58 net seats lost (childcare and district)

Newton

63.51%

57.66%

-5.85

Population down 22; 30 net seats lost (childcare and district)

Jackson

64.81%

58.91%

-5.90%

Population down 85; 154 net seats lost (childcare, Head Start, and district)

Leflore

86.64%

80.69%

-5.95

Population down 74; 90 seats lost (all providers)

Tishomingo

77.88%

71.89%

-5.99

Population stable; 20 net seats lost (Head Start)

Lamar

51.62%

45.35%

-6.27

Population up 14; 44 net seats lost (childcare)

Jefferson

100.00%

93.44%

-6.56

Population up 52; seats stable

Tate

64.22%

56.99%

-7.23

Population down 41; 47 seats lost (childcare and Head Start)

Itawamba

81.25%

72.90%

-8.35

Population stable; 17 net seats lost (Head Start and district)

Chickasaw

70.59%

62.13%

-8.46

Population down 20; 34 net seats lost (childcare, Head Start, and district)

Wilkinson

100.00%

91.09%

-8.91

Population stable; 25 net seats lost (Head Start and blended)

Coahoma

93.11%

83.52%

-9.59

Population down 57; 88 net seats lost (Head Start and district)

Madison

55.54%

45.47%

-10.07

Population down 76; 170 net seats lost (childcare, Head Start, and blended)

Quitman

85.29%

75.00%

-10.29

Population down 10; 18 seats lost (all providers)

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2014-2015 2017-2018 Rate Rate

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Change

Significant Changes

Yalobusha

87.76%

76.43%

-11.33

Population stable; 22 net seats lost (childcare)

Marshall

69.68%

56.54%

-13.14

Population up 19; 43 seats lost (Head Start)

Pontotoc

50.85%

34.77%

-16.08

Population up 27; 57 net seats lost (Head Start and district)

Monroe

88.72%

71.65%

-17.07

Population up 56; 28 net seats lost (childcare)

Montgomery

76.03%

56.94%

-19.09

Population up 23; 10 net seats lost (Head Start)

Clay

97.51%

78.26%

-19.25

Population down 11; 55 seats lost (childcare and Head Start)

Smith

75.61%

48.72%

-26.89

Population down 10; 60 seats lost (all providers)

Bolivar

100.00%

72.20%

-27.80

Population down 15; 178 seats lost (Head Start)

Greene

47.47%

13.49%

-33.98

Population down 32; 58 seats lost (Head Start)

Lawrence

100.00%

65.03%

-34.97

Population down 11; 64 net seats lost (Head Start)

Jasper

100.00%

60.62%

-39.38

Population up 38; 60 seats lost (childcare and Head Start)

Perry

65.73%

24.84%

-40.89

Population up 10; 56 seats lost (Head Start and district)

Marion

97.90%

54.73%

-43.17

Population down 37; 164 net seats lost (childcare, Head Start, and district)

WHY DO SOME COUNTIES HAVE GREATER ACCESS? To determine if a particular type of provider explained why some counties had greater access, we regressed access rates by provider type against total access. This regression showed Head Start, district, blended Head Start, and licensed childcare seats all have a statistically significant, positive association with the probability of total access. The differences between

provider types were very small and may be measurement error. All things being equal and on average, for every one percentage point increase in Head Start, district, blended, or licensed childcare, overall access increases by the following percentage points (standard errors in parentheses):

Head Start: .938 points (.013) District: .971 points (.012) Blended: .976 points (.022) Licensed Childcare: .957 points (.02)

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ACCESS TO PUBLIC PRE-K FOR 2018-2019 PUBLIC SCHOOL KINGERGARTENERS STATEWIDE In this section, we present access to public pre-K for 2018-2019 public school kindergarteners (the 2017-2018 four-year-old cohort). Public pre-K includes all seats funded primarily through public sources, such as seats in Head Start and school districts. Public seats also include blended Head Start seats and seats in collaborative programs, including the small number of “public” childcare seats funded as part of a collaborative program.13 Most public seats are tuition free to participants, but a small number of school district seats, as well as the public childcare seats, may require parents to pay full or partial tuition, though “full” tuition is still subsidized. In total, 15,318, or 43.56%, of children who entered public school kindergarten in 2018-2019 had access to public pre-K in 2017-2018.

2018-2019 KINDERGARTENERS WITH NO ACCESS TO PUBLIC PRE-K IN 2017-2018 An estimated 56.44% of 2018-2019 kindergarteners statewide had no access to any public pre-K program in 2017-2018. This rate represents the total percentage of public school kindergarteners statewide who did not participate in pre-K in public school districts, Head Start, blended Head Start, or “public” childcare, including any collaborative.

CHANGES TO ACCESS TO PUBLIC PRE-K FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL KINDERGARTEN SINCE 2015-2016 We estimate that the statewide access rate for children who entered public school in kindergarten in 2018-2019 was unchanged from our previous report (43.56% versus 43.65%). Because access is a ratio of the number of available seats to the number of kindergarteners, changes to either seat counts or the kindergarten population can affect the overall rate. Since our last report, both figures have changed. In 2017-2018, there were 15,318 public seats statewide across all public providers, which represents a decrease of 1,081 since 2014-2015 when there were an estimated 16,399 public pre-K seats. However, in this time, the number of public kindergarteners also declined from 37,567 in 2015-2016 to 35,169 in 2018-2019, a population loss of 2,398, which is consistent with the overall estimated population loss at age four (2,074). As population and seats trended together, the rate was stable across years.

13 Childcare seats funded through federal childcare vouchers are also paid through public funds, sometimes with a parent co-pay, but these vouchers are not county specific, so it is impossible to model their effect on county or district access rates.

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PUBLIC PRE-K ACCESS FOR 2018-2019 PUBLIC SCHOOL KINDERGARTENERS BY SCHOOL DISTRICT In 2018-2019, we calculated an average district access rate of 53.80%, a negligible .30-percentage point increase since 2015-2016. Please remember that the average district access rate is an average of each district’s access rate rather than a ratio of all seats and students statewide. Please also recall that we use a “capped” access rate number (100%) for districts with excess capacity and that the average reflects these capped rates for the nine applicable districts. Having an average district rate that is higher than the statewide rate indicates that Mississippi pre-K seats are clustered in specific districts rather than available uniformly across districts. This is consistent with our previous findings as well as our county access findings.

In the lists below, we divide districts into those with above-average, average, and below-average access to publicly funded pre-K. We used one standard deviation above and below the mean to classify school districts as “above average,”“average,” and “below average.” Therefore, “above average” is one standard deviation above the mean, “average” is within one standard deviation above and below the mean, and “below average” is one standard deviation below the mean. We split districts with average access rates into two groups: districts with an average access rate above the mean and districts with an average access rate below the mean. Districts that had excess capacity (and are thus subject to the 100% cap) are marked with an asterisk (*).

Districts with Above-Average Access to Publicly Funded Pre-K Amite County School District (100%)*

East Tallahatchie School District (93%)

Attala County School District (100%)*

Humphreys County School District (93%)

Benton County School District (100%)*

Leland School District (90%)

Choctaw County School District (100%)

Sunflower County Consolidated School District (90%)

Coffeeville School District (100%)*

Greenwood Public School District (89%)

East Jasper School District (100%)*

Hazlehurst City School District (88%)

Jefferson County School District (100%)*

Kemper County School District (86%)

Jefferson Davis County School District (100%)*

Newton Municipal School District (86%)

Philadelphia Public School District (100%)*

West Bolivar Consolidated School District (86%)

South Delta School District (100%)*

Natchez-Adams School District (85%)

Wilkinson County School District (100%)*

Yazoo City Municipal School District (85%)

Claiborne County School District (96%)

Covington County School District (84%)

Greenville Public School District (95%)

Holmes County Consolidated School District (83%)

Tunica County School District (94%)

West Point School District (82%)

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Districts with Average Access to Publicly Funded Pre-K (Above the Mean) Kosciusko School District (80%)

Hollandale School District (70%)

Carroll County School District (61%)

Quitman County School District (80%)

McComb School District (70%)

Laurel School District (61%)

Clarksdale Municipal School District (79%)

North Panola School District (70%)

Prentiss County School District (61%)

Meridian Public School District (78%)

Quitman School District (70%)

Hinds County School District (60%)

Cleveland School District (76%)

Vicksburg Warren School District (70%)

Okolona Separate School District (60%)

Forest Municipal School District (75%)

Wayne County School District (70%)

Louisville Municipal School District (58%)

Calhoun County School District (74%)

Brookhaven School District (69%)

Marshall County School District (58%)

Corinth School District (73%)

Chickasaw County School District (69%)

Clarksdale Collegiate (57%)

West Tallahatchie School District (73%)

Winona-Montgomery Consolidated School District (69%) Leflore County School District (56%)

North Bolivar Consolidated School District (72%)

Franklin County School District (66%)

Monroe School District (56%)

Noxubee County School District (72%)

Holly Springs School District (66%)

Coahoma County School District (55%)

South Pike School District (72%)

Aberdeen School District (65%)

Enterprise School District (55%)

Columbus Municipal School District (71%)

Moss Point School District (65%)

Canton Public School District (54%)

Jackson Public School District (71%)

Water Valley School District (62%)

Grenada School District (54%)

Districts with Average Access to Publicly Funded Pre-K (Below the Mean) Baldwyn School District (53%)

Copiah County School District (43%)

Pearl Public School District (35%)

Tupelo Public School District (53%)

New Albany Public Schools (43%)

Leake County School District (34%)

North Tippah School District (51%)

Richton School District (42%)

Tate County School District (34%)

Hattiesburg Public School District (50%)

Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District (42%)

Tishomingo County School District (34%)

Union Public School District (42%)

Pass Christian Public School District (33%)

South Panola School District (50%) Walthall County School District (50%) Amory School District (49%) Picayune School District (49%) South Tippah School District (49%) Union County School District (49%) Western Line School District (49%) Oxford School District (46%) Neshoba County School District (45%) Alcorn School District (44%) West Jasper School District (44%)

Pascagoula Separate School District (41%) Simpson County School District (39%) Biloxi Public School District (37%) Itawamba County School District (37%) Booneville School District (36%) George County School District (36%) Gulfport School District (36%) Yazoo County School District (36%) Lowndes County School District (35%)

Joel E Smilow (Republic) (33%) Senatobia Municipal School District (33%) Bay-Waveland School District (32%) Forrest County Schools (32%) Scott County School District (32%) Marion County School District (31%) Petal School District (28%) Columbia School District (27%) Harrison County School District (27%) Lafayette County School District (27%)

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Districts with Below-Average Access to Publicly Funded Pre-K North Pike School District (26%)

Nettleton School District (17%)

Lauderdale County School District (11%)

Smith County School District (26%)

Desoto County School District (15%)

Lincoln County School District (9%)

Lamar County School District (25%)

Long Beach School District (15%)

Ocean Springs School District (9%)

Stone County School District (24%)

Newton County School District (15%)

Madison County School District (7%)

Hancock County School District (23%)

Jones County School District (14%)

Pontotoc County Schools (4%)

Webster County School District (23%)

Pontotoc City Schools (14%)

Pearl River County School District (0%)

Houston School District (22%)

Greene County School District (13%)

Perry County Schools (0%)

Poplarville Separate School District (22%)

Jackson County School District (13%)

Lee County School District (20%)

Rankin County School District (12%)

Clinton Public School District (18%)

CHANGES IN ACCESS TO PUBLIC PRE-K FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL KINDERGARTEN BY DISTRICT SINCE 2015-2016 Even though the average district rate changed only slightly, we did note many significant changes on the district level. District changes range from a decline of 68.71 percentage points in Marion County School District to an increase of 68.56 percentage points in Brookhaven School District.

Most of the changes arise from how population changes and seat changes interact. For example, despite the fact that the West Point School District lost 39 seats between 2015-2016 and 2018-2019, its population decline was even more severe—a loss of 71 children. As a result, the West Point School District public pre-K access rate actually grew 6.77 percentage points as fewer seats served even fewer children. There were also several school districts that consolidated between 2014-2015, the earliest year for pre-K enrollment data, and 2018-2019, the latest year for kindergarten enrollment data. We have combined data where appropriate to quantify changes and note these consolidations. Finally, charter schools newly serving kindergarteners after 2015-2016 appear in our 2018-2019 kindergarten data.

Below, we divide districts into three categories—districts where access increased, districts where access stayed the same, and districts where access declined since the last report. We label any changes of less than one percentage point (i.e., -1.0 to 1.0) as stable, with increases and declines

above or below that. For each category, we provide the old and new access rates by district as well as any significant population or seat shifts that may explain these changes. We consider population or seat changes to be “significant” if the change is a factor of 10 or more, which would represent the number of students that would necessitate new staff in a pre-K setting since there must be at least one new adult for every 10 students.

In parentheses, we note seat types that are responsible for any net gain or loss; this does not mean the other seat types did not experience changes, just that these changes were smaller than 10. Please see Appendix H for exact changes by type. Districts that had excess capacity (and thus subject to the 100% cap) are marked with an asterisk (*). Districts that consolidated between 2014-2015 and 2018-2019 are marked with a dagger (†).

Please note that this information is based on estimates of public pre-K and kindergarten enrollment for two different years. As a result, the risk of measurement error is higher than in our statewide analyses. Please interpret individual district results with caution.

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Districts Where Access Increased Access to public pre-K increased in 64 districts. In over half of these districts (38), the four-year-old population declined. Conversely, in 44 of these districts, seats grew. For most districts, this means there were more pre-K seats divided among fewer kindergarteners, leading to an increase in access over time.

Please note that Clarksdale Collegiate and Joel E. Smilow (Republic) both opened during the time period between the publication of The State of Pre-K in Mississippi 2014-2015 and the beginning of the 2017-2018 school year. While the rates presented for these schools represent the first measure of access for their students, these rates do not represent new access in these communities. We list these schools separately at the bottom of this section for this reason.

District

20152016 Rate

Brookhaven School District

0.00%

North Tippah School District

0.86%

Kosciusko School District

36.54%

Newton Municipal School District

48.65%

Covington County School District

49.22%

East Tallahatchie School District

62.04%

Wayne County School District

42.26%

Amite County School District*

71.95%

South Pike School District

46.97%

Columbus Municipal School District

45.90%

Baldwyn School District

27.78%

Hinds County School District

36.61%

North Pike School District

2.74%

Okolona Separate School District

37.04%

Jefferson Davis County School District*

81.15%

Hancock County School District

4.40%

Nettleton School District

0.00%

Vicksburg Warren School District

53.02%

Water Valley School District

45.26%

Grenada School District

38.13%

Greenwood Public School District

73.95%

Aberdeen School District

51.19%

20182019 Rate 68.56% 50.53% 80.34% 86.44% 84.27% 93.24% 70.37% 100.00% 72.32% 70.98% 52.54% 60.24% 26.09% 60.00% 100.00% 22.76% 17.48% 70.13% 62.03% 54.15% 88.51% 64.84%

Sunflower County Consolidated School District

76.45%

89.81%

+13.36

Population down 62; 12 net seats lost (district and childcare)

Monroe School District

42.47%

55.67%

+13.20

Population stable; 31 net seats lost (district, childcare, and Head Start)

Forrest County Schools

18.34% 59.68%

+13.16 +13.05

Population down 29; 21 net seats added (blended)

Corinth School District

31.50% 72.73%

Change

Significant Change

+68.56 +49.67 +43.80 +37.79 +35.05 +31.20 +28.11 +28.05 +25.35 +25.08 +24.76 +23.63 +23.35 +22.96 +18.85 +18.36 +17.48 +17.11 +16.77 +16.02 +14.56 +13.65

Population down 23; 157 seats added (district and Head Start) Population down 21; 47 seats added (Head Start) Population down 30; 131 net seats added (district) Population down 15; 15 seats added (Head Start) Population stable; 69 net seats added (blended) Population down 34; seats stable Population stable; 78 net seats added (district) Population down 17; 12 seats added (Head Start) Population down 20; 19 seats added (district) Population up 12; 85 net seats added (Head Start) Population down 13; 11 net seats added (blended) Population down 100; 43 net seats added (district and Head Start) Population up 15; 38 seats added (Head Start) Population down 19; seats stable Population stable; 35 seats added (Head Start) Population stable; 57 net seats added (district and Head Start) Population stable; 18 seats added (blended) Population down 71; 58 net seats added (district) Population down 16; seats stable Population up 26; 31 net seats added (district) Population down 64; 16 net seats lost (Head Start) Population stable; 16 net seats added (district and Head Start)

Population down 39; seats stable

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Districts Where Access Increased

District

20152016 Rate

Hazlehurst City School District

75.00%

Yazoo City Municipal School District

72.82%

Neshoba County School District

32.52%

George County School District

24.18%

Tunica County School District

82.76%

20182019 Rate 87.50% 85.20% 44.89% 36.14% 94.04%

Lamar County School District†

13.99%

Coffeeville School District*

89.47%

Forest Municipal School District

64.46%

New Albany Public Schools

32.65%

Noxubee County School District

61.67%

Lowndes County School District

24.59%

Pearl Public School District

25.23%

Alcorn School District

34.36%

Gulfport School District

28.12%

Union Public School District

34.57%

Calhoun County School District

66.97%

South Panola School District

43.42%

West Point School District

Change

Significant Change

+12.50 +12.38 +12.37 +11.96 +11.28

Population up 20; 30 seats added (Head Start) Population down 21; 21 net seats added (district and Head Start)

24.75%

+10.76

Population up 22; 106 net seats added (district, blended, and Head Start)

+10.53 +10.38 +10.35 +10.12 +9.97 +9.70 +9.36 +7.94 +7.46 +7.03 +6.89 +6.77

Population stable; seats stable

75.49%

100.00% 74.84% 43.00% 71.79% 34.56% 34.93% 43.72% 36.06% 42.03% 74.00% 50.31% 82.26%

Winona-Montgomery Consolidated School District†

62.64%

69.39%

+6.75

Population stable; 11 net seats added (district)

Coahoma County School District

48.95% 89.23%

Rankin County School District

5.42%

Copiah County School District

36.70%

Greenville Public School District

90.11%

Clinton Public School District

13.05%

Natchez-Adams School District

80.00%

Jackson Public School District

66.32%

South Delta School District*

95.95%

Senatobia Municipal School District

29.08%

Simpson County School District

35.46%

Jones County School District

10.94%

+6.50 +6.37 +6.08 +5.85 +5.22 +5.21 +5.00 +4.81 +4.05 +3.97 +3.83 +3.27

Population down 33; 2 net seats lost (Head Start)

Claiborne County School District

55.45% 95.60% 11.50% 42.55% 95.33% 18.26% 85.00% 71.13% 100.00% 33.05% 39.29% 14.21%

†

Population down 10; 17 net seats added (district) Population down 43; 28 net seats added (district) Population stable; 32 net seats added (Head Start)

Population stable; 12 seats added (Head Start) Population stable; 22 net seats added (district) Population stable; 10 net seats added (district and Head Start) Population down 13; 42 net seats added (district and Head Start) Population stable; 33 net seats added (district) Population up 20; 27 seats added (district) Population down 31; 34 seats added (Head Start) Population down 12; seats stable Population down 21; 10 seats added (district) Population down 33; 11 seats lost (blended) Population down 72; 39 nets seats lost (district and Head Start)

Population down 39; 29 net seats lost (Head Start) Population stable; 83 net seats added (district and Head Start) Population down 30; seats stable Population down 124; 75 net seats lost (district and Head Start) Population down 16; 17 net seats added (Head Start) Population down 40; 30 net seats lost (district and Head Start) Population down 354; 142 net seats lost (Head Start) Population down 24; seats stable Population down 23; seats stable Population down 33; seats stable Population up 26; 27 net seats added (Head Start)

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Districts Where Access Increased District

20152016 Rate

Stone County School District

20.47%

Long Beach School District

11.44%

Jackson County School District

10.61%

Madison County School District

4.57%

Laurel School District

59.47%

20182019 Rate 23.67% 14.54% 13.43% 6.80% 61.20%

Change

Significant Change

+3.20 +3.10 +2.82 +2.23 +1.73

Population stable; seats stable Population stable; seats stable Population down 36; 14 net seats added (district) Population up 96; 41 net seats added (district) Population down 39; 18 seats lost (Head Start)

New Schools District Clarksdale Collegiate Joel E. Smilow (Republic)

2015-2016 Rate ---

2018-2019 Rate 56.60% 33.33%

Change

Significant Change

+56.6 +33.3

New school district New school district

Districts Where Access Stayed the Same In these 12 districts, the 2018-2019 rates were within one percentage point, positive or negative, of the 2015-2016 rates. In only one district was this phenomenon due to negligible population and seat changes (Benton County School District). In most of these districts, population and seats declined together so that the effect was stability across the years. In the remaining districts either the population or the seats remained stable. Most of the districts with excess capacity fell into this category.

District

2015-2016 2018-2019 Rate Rate

Change

Significant Change

West Tallahatchie School District

72.73%

72.92%

+0.19

Population down 18; 11 net seats lost (district and Head Start)

Attala County School District*

100.00%

100.00%

0.00

Population stable; 15 net seats lost (district and Head Start)

Benton County School District*

100.00%

100.00%

0.00

Population stable; seats stable

East Jasper School District*

100%

100.00%

0.00

Population down 14; 25 net seats lost (district and Head Start)

Jefferson County School District*

100.00% 0.00%

100.00% 0.00%

0.00 0.00

Population stable; 2 net seats lost (Head Start)

Pearl River County School District

Population up 19; seats stable

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Districts Where Access Stayed the Same 2015-2016 2018-2019 Rate Rate

District

Change

Significant Change

Philadelphia Public School District*

100.00%

100.00%

0.00

Population down 32; 26 net seats lost (district and Head Start)

Wilkinson County School District*

100.00%

100.00%

0.00

Population down 14; 25 net seats lost (blended and Head Start)

Biloxi Public School District

36.76% 58.04% 33.24% 62.07%

36.68% 57.86% 32.39% 61.14%

-0.08 -0.18 -0.85 -0.93

Population up 12; seats stable

Louisville Municipal School District Scott County School District Prentiss County School District

Population down 65; 31 net seats lost (district) Population down 83; 30 seats lost (Head Start) Population down 28; 19 net seats lost (Head Start)

Districts Where Access Declined Pre-K access declined in 68 districts. Half of the districts that experienced population growth among kindergarteners fell into this category.

However, only in six instances did population growth alone explain the decline in access (Pass Christian Public School District, Franklin County School District, Union County School District, North Panola School District, Webster County School District, and Enterprise School District).

Instead, declines in seats had the greatest impact on districts in this category as all but four districts lost seats (West Jasper School District, Richton School District, Kemper County School District, and Walthall County School District). Richton School District, Kemper County School District, and Walthall County School District had stable populations and seats, but the vagaries of small numbers led to the small declines in access.

District Lafayette County School District Lee County School District Desoto County School District Harrison County School District

2015-2016 2018-2019 Rate Rate 28.00% 26.90% 21.68% 20.47% 16.40% 14.81% 28.28% 26.62%

Change

Significant Change

-1.10

Population down 29; 10 seats lost (Head Start)

-1.21

Population down 59; 19 net seats lost (Head Start)

-1.59

Population up 50; 31 net seats lost (district)

-1.66

Population down 96; 45 seats lost (Head Start)

Pass Christian Public School District

35.04%

33.11%

-1.93

Population up 11; seats stable

Franklin County School District

67.62%

65.52%

-2.10

Population up 11; seats stable

Picayune School District

51.14%

49.01%

-2.13

Population down 11; 11 net seats lost (district and Head Start)

Moss Point School District

67.15%

64.71%

-2.44

Population down 35; 26 net seats lost (Head Start)

Leland School District

93.22%

90.48%

-2.74

Population stable; 7 net seats added (district and blended)

Humphreys County School District

95.77%

92.92%

-2.85

Population down 29; 31 net seats lost (Head Start)

Lauderdale County School District

13.57%

10.54%

-3.03

Population down 52; 40 net seats lost (district and Head Start)

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Districts Where Access Declined District Walthall County School District Union County School District

2015-2016 2018-2019 Rate Rate 52.94% 49.65% 52.00% 48.55%

Change

Significant Change

-3.29

Population stable; seats stable

-3.45

Population up 51; seats stable

Poplarville Separate School District

25.69%

22.22%

-3.47

Population down 18; 16 net seats lost (district and Head Start)

North Panola School District

74.75%

70.49%

-4.26

Population up 23; seats stable

Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District†

47.09%

42.39%

-4.69

Population stable; 16 net seats lost (Head Start)

Amory School District

53.62%

48.91%

-4.71

Population stable; 7 net seats lost (childcare and Head Start)

Pontotoc City Schools

19.13%

14.13%

-5.00

Population stable; 11 seats lost (Head Start)

Meridian Public School District

83.05%

78.01%

-5.04

Population down 43; 57 net seats lost (district and Head Start)

Tate County School District

39.41%

-5.11

Population down 31; 21 seats lost (Head Start)

Richton School District

47.06%

34.30% 41.82%

-5.24

Population stable; seats stable

Houston School District

27.15%

21.85%

-5.30

Population stable; 14 net seats lost (district and Head Start)

Webster County School District

28.81%

22.73%

-6.08

Population up 14; seats stable

Itawamba County School District

42.81%

36.59%

-6.22

Population stable; 31 net seats lost (district and Head Start)

Smith County School District

33.03%

26.37%

-6.66

Population down 17; 44 net seats lost (district and Head Start)

West Bolivar Consolidated School District

92.78%

86.05%

-6.73

Population down 11; 16 net seats lost (Head Start)

Holmes County School District†

90.22%

82.93%

-7.29

Population down 20; 25 net seats lost (Head Start)

Columbia School District

34.67%

26.96%

-7.71

Population down 35; 19 net seats lost (district and Head Start)

Oxford School District

53.96%

46.15%

-7.81

Population up 10; 22 net seats lost (blended and Head Start)

Booneville School District

43.80%

35.58%

-8.22

Population down 17; 16 seats lost (Head Start)

Choctaw County School District

91.07%

82.83%

-8.24

Population down 13; 10 net seats lost (district and Head Start)

Leake County School District

42.67%

34.19%

-8.48

Population stable; 19 seats lost (Head Start)

Leflore County School District

65.03%

56.30%

-8.73

Population down 48; 38 net seats lost (district and Head Start)

Quitman School District

79.47%

70.16%

-9.31

Population down 27; 24 net seats lost (district and blended)

Canton Public School District

63.41%

53.90%

-9.51

Population down 59; 53 net seats lost (Head Start)

Pascagoula Separate School District

51.58%

41.45%

-10.13

Population down 71; 84 net seats lost (district and Head Start)

Ocean Springs School District

19.49%

-10.15

Population stable; 40 net seats lost (Head Start)

Enterprise School District

65.57%

9.34% 54.67%

-10.90

Population up 14; seats stable

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Districts Where Access Declined District South Tippah School District Marshall County School District Newton County School District Western Line School District Tupelo Public School District

2015-2016 2018-2019 Rate Rate 59.64% 48.72% 68.85% 57.68% 25.93% 14.52% 61.29% 49.26% 64.89% 51.97%

Change

Significant Change

-10.92

Population up 11; 19 seats lost (district)

-11.17

Population stable; 29 seats lost (Head Start)

-11.41

Population down 11; 17 seats lost (Head Start)

-12.03

Population down 19; 15 seats lost (Head Start)

-12.92

Population up 14; 31 net seats lost (Head Start)

Cleveland School District

89.90%

75.61%

-14.29

Population down 61; 90 net seats lost (district and Head Start)

Kemper County School District

100.00%

85.71%

-14.29

Population stable; seats stable

Quitman County School District

94.38%

80.00%

-14.38

Population stable; 12 net seats lost (district and Head Start)

Yazoo County School District

50.86%

-14.50

Population down 28; 27 net seats lost (Head Start)

Tishomingo County Schools

49.23%

-15.50

Population down 11; 44 seats lost (Head Start)

West Jasper School District

60.00%

-15.56

Population stable; 16 seats lost (Head Start)

Petal School District

43.41%

36.36% 33.73% 44.44% 27.79%

-15.62

Population up 20; 43 net seats lost (district)

Holly Springs School District

86.46%

66.36%

-20.10

Population up 11; 12 net seats lost (blended and Head Start)

Clarksdale Municipal School District

99.64%

79.43%

-20.21

Population down 71; 113 net seats lost (district and Head Start)

Chickasaw County School District

91.30%

-22.41

Population stable; 11 net seats lost (district)

Lawrence County School District

76.14%

68.89% 52.00%

-24.14

Population down 26; 56 net seats lost (Head Start)

Hattiesburg Public School District

75.93%

50.28%

-25.65

Population down 24; 109 net seats lost (district and Head Start)

McComb School District

96.02%

69.83%

-26.19

Population down 47; 92 net seats lost (childcare and blended)

Pontotoc County Schools

30.43%

3.88%

-26.55

Population up 10; 79 net seats lost (district and Head Start)

Carroll County School District

88.14%

61.19%

-26.95

Population stable; 10 net seats lost (district)

North Bolivar Consolidated School District

100.00%

72.41%

-27.59

Population down 27; 64 net seats lost (district and Head Start)

Bay-Waveland School District

59.52%

-27.94

Population down 35; 58 seats lost (Head Start)

Hollandale School District

100.00%

-29.82

Population stable; 30 net seats lost (Head Start)

Lincoln County School District

44.53%

-35.11

Population down 24; 89 seats lost (Head Start)

Greene County School District

47.97%

31.58% 70.18% 9.42% 12.59%

-35.38

Population down 13; 54 seats lost (Head Start)

Perry County Schools

46.00%

0.00%

-46.00

Population down 11; 46 net seats lost (district and Head Start)

Marion County School District

100.00%

31.29%

-68.71

Population stable; 114 net seats lost (Head Start)

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WHY DO SOME SCHOOL DISTRICTS HAVE GREATER PUBLIC ACCESS? To determine if a particular type of provider explained why some school districts had greater public access, we regressed public access by provider type against total public access. All provider types had a strong, positive association with total public access. The differences between provider types were small and could be explained by measurement error. All else equal and on average, for every one percentage point increase in Head Start, district, blended, or public childcare, the overall public access rate increased by the following percentage points (standard error in parentheses):

Head Start: .901 points (.013) District: .943 points (.016) Blended: .960 points (.023) Public Childcare: 1.06 points (.169)

CONCLUSION In this report, we track access to pre-K for four-year-olds as well as access to public pre-K for public kindergarteners. As in previous reports, we found stability in access to public pre-K, but we found that access to pre-K for four-year-olds across all provider types shrank slightly during the three-year period between reports. We also noted that the number of seats and the number of four-year-old children have been steadily decreasing throughout the state.

The declining numbers of children and seats—and their relative speed—is the cause of the slight decrease in access statewide for the first time since the inception of this report. This slight reduction is not cause for immediate alarm, but it is key that we continue to monitor the state of pre-K as population loss continues to affect Mississippi. As we state in the body of the report, we believe the two most important strategies Mississippi can take to prevent a weakening of our pre-K system is increasing the number of early learning collaboratives and increasing the number of blended Head Start seats.

Finally, just as population loss will affect pre-K, it will also have a profound effect on K-12 settings as K-12 state and federal funding is based on exact enrollment. Although local district dollars are not as closely tied to enrollment changes, the overall population of an area will impact the size and strength of the tax base, eventually reducing local dollars as well. If enrollment and community population dip below a certain level, a district will no longer be able to provide a quality education on their own. In the three-year period between the last pre-K report and this one, the legislature merged 10 school districts due to poor performance and shrinking enrollment, with more almost certainly to come in future years.

Because this is a statewide problem, we believe the legislature will need to focus on this issue in the years to come.

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Appendix A: PRE-K TYPES EXPLAINER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT PRE-K Public school district pre-K refers to pre-K programs that are operated by a Mississippi public school district, including a charter school. Districts may offer six types of public school pre-K programs, if they choose, categorized mainly by the funding source and its related restrictions, including Title I, local district, tuition-based, blended, hybrid, or externally funded programs.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES Population Served

Any child who has attained the age of four on or before September 1 of a school year is eligible to attend public school district pre-K, where available, unless the specific pre-K program’s funding source imposes additional restrictions. For example, children enrolled in public school district pre-K programs supported through Title I dollars must also meet Title I eligibility requirements.

Funding Public School Pre-K Funding Types, Except the Collaborative Program 1. Title I: All funds utilized to support this program come from the federal Title I program. Title I pre-K programs are typically located on campus at one or more elementary schools in a given district.

2. Local District: Local tax dollars are utilized to support these programs. These programs are typically located on campus at one or more elementary schools in a given district.

3. Tuition-Based: Tuition paid by parents of enrolled children supports these programs. These programs are typically located on campus at one or more elementary schools in a given district.

4. Blended Head Start: Title I and Head Start dollars are blended to support these programs. These programs may be located either on campus at one or more elementary schools in a given district or at a local Head Start agency.

5. Hybrid: These programs are funded by multiple sources, such as Title I and IDEA, local tax dollars and tuition, external sources and Title I, etc. These programs may be located on campus at one or more elementary schools in a given district or in a donated space (e.g., apartment complex).

6. Externally Funded: These programs are funded by sources outside of the school district, excluding Head Start funds. Examples of externally funded pre-K programs are those that are funded through grants, private donations, and nonprofit organizations. These programs may be located on campus at one or more elementary schools in a given district or in a donated space (e.g., apartment complex).

Quality

All public school programs, regardless of the funding source, must follow the Mississippi Early Learning Guidelines for Classrooms Serving Three- and Four-Year-Old Children and are monitored by the Office of Early Childhood at the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE). MDE is committed to ensuring that all public school district pre-K programs meet the 10 National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) quality benchmarks, which are being phased into the MDE Guidelines. Other quality standards that public school pre-K programs follow are listed below: • Any public school pre-K program funded in whole or in part with Title I dollars must follow U.S. Department of Education guidance, including Title I Part A – Basic Guidelines.

• Any public school pre-K program funded in part with Head Start dollars must also follow the Head Start Performance Standards.

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HEAD START

Head Start is a program of the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides comprehensive early childhood education, health, nutrition, and parent engagement services to low-income children and their families. Every county in Mississippi has at least one Head Start center. In 2017-2018, Mississippi had 15 grantees serving over 8,000 four-year-olds.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES Population Served 90% of children in a given Head Start center must be at or below 100% of federal poverty guidelines. Head Start centers must also serve children with disabilities.

Quality

Funding Head Start centers are funded by a federal grant awarded directly to local nonprofits.

Head Start grantees received approximately $9,003 per child in the 2017-2018 school year. The state has no official role in funding Head Start centers that are not part of the state-funded collaborative pre-K program.

The federal Office of Head Start monitors the quality of local Head Start centers using the Head Start Performance Standards set forth in the Head Start Act of 2007. In addition to meeting program standards, Head Start requires that programs use a quality measure, such as CLASS. Head Start grantees who consistently fail to meet standards are required to “re-compete” for their grants.

The state has no official role in managing or evaluating Head Start centers that are not also part of the state-funded collaborative pre-K program.

LICENSED CHILDCARE A licensed childcare center provides supervised care to children of any age for which the facility is licensed by the State Department of Health.

Childcare centers are most frequently private businesses. Some Head Start centers must be licensed as a childcare center, if not affiliated with an accredited educational institution such as a public school. Most, but not all, counties in Mississippi have licensed childcare centers.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES Population Served Children of any age or income can be served by licensed childcare centers, provided that the center is licensed for the population served and parents can afford any required tuition.

Funding

Quality

Most Mississippi licensed childcare centers charge tuition to cover their expenses as most are for-profit, private businesses. Some nonprofit childcare centers may subsidize tuition through donations. If a licensed childcare center is part of a state-funded collaborative, they receive state funds. If a licensed childcare center is qualified to accept childcare certificates (known as vouchers), the cost of tuition paid by the parent who qualifies for a certificate may be reduced or eliminated.

Childcare providers serving more than six unrelated children must be licensed by the State Department of Health to operate in Mississippi. Licensure guidelines are primarily focused on health and safety. In the past, Mississippi had a five-star, multi-pronged quality rating and improvement system operated by the Department of Human Services.

This system was voluntary and served only about 30% of licensed childcare centers at its peak. Recently, Mississippi had a two-tier system that rated centers as “basic” or “comprehensive.” This system was also voluntary. It is not in use and will be redesigned.

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STATE-FUNDED COLLABORATIVE PRE-K “State-funded collaborative pre-K” refers to pre-K programs established by the Early Learning Collaborative Act of 2013. These programs, known as “ELCs,” operated in 18 communities and served 3,000 students in 2017-2018. All collaboratives are overseen by MDE, even though individual providers may have additional oversight agencies.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES Collaboration

State Tax Credit

To be eligible for state funding, all collaboratives are required to have two or more partners, including at least one school district and at least one Head Start, if one exists within the county. Collaboratives can also include private childcare centers and private or parochial schools. These partners form a collaborative council and select a Lead Partner, who serves as the fiscal agent of the collaborative. The Lead Partner coordinates a joint application for state funding. More information about the collaborative council can be found in Mississippi First’s How to Start a Collaborative.

Individuals or corporations who make a contribution to support the local matching fund of an approved early learning collaborative may be eligible to receive a state tax credit for the donated amount up to $1 million. The Mississippi Department of Revenue can approve 1:1 tax credits up to the amount the legislature appropriates to collaboratives each year. For example, in 2021, the legislature appropriated $16 million; therefore, the 2021 donations eligible for the credit may not exceed $16 million.

Competitive Application The program is competitive and has had only four application cycles, in 2013, 2016, 2018, and 2021 (ongoing).

New application cycles depend on the legislature increasing the funding for the program or on the closure of a current collaborative.

Quality Collaborative pre-K programs are required to meet the highest levels of quality, as defined by meeting 10 of 10 of the quality benchmarks by NIEER. In addition, collaboratives must help students become kindergarten ready according to child outcome data.

CLASS observations to satisfy this requirement, provided that the childcare provider meets the minimum score on the CLASS. Other tools that can be used include the ECERS-R, FCCERS-R, PQA, PQA-FCC, ELLCO, and CHELLO. If a childcare provider wishes to use an alternate assessment tool, it must receive prior approval from MDE.

MDE is tasked with ensuring quality through an annual effectiveness evaluation. Collaboratives, and each provider within a collaborative, must meet a minimum score on this evaluation to continue in the state-funded program. The effectiveness evaluation combines child outcome data from the kindergarten-readiness assessment (MKAS2), the comprehensive early learning assessment (Brigance Early Childhood Screen III (3-5)), and a measure of classroom quality (CLASS). The effectiveness evaluation requires MDE to annually complete on-site monitoring to determine the collaborative’s adherence to program standards (the Mississippi Early Learning Guidelines for Classrooms Serving Three- and Four-Year-Old Children as well as the NIEER benchmarks) and to conduct CLASS observations in each collaborative.

Funding Approved collaboratives receive state funding to operate full-day or halfday programs. The funding amounts to $4,300 per child enrolled in full-day programs and $2,150 per child enrolled in half-day programs. The State of Mississippi provides half of these costs ($2,150 per child enrolled in fullday pre-K and $1,075 per child enrolled in half-day pre-K). In 2020, the legislature updated these amounts to $5,000 per child enrolled in full-day programs ($2,500 in state funds) and $2,500 per child enrolled in half-day programs ($1,250 in state funds). The state requires that the other half be provided by local matching funds, which may include local tax dollars, federal dollars (as allowed), tuition, philanthropic contributions, or in-kind donations of facilities, equipment, and services required as part of the program, such as food service or health screenings. Most often, matching funds come from the federal Title I program or from philanthropic contributions.

Any collaborative program that uses Title I dollars must also follow the Title I, Part A – Basic Guidelines. Head Start or blended programs within a collaborative must additionally follow the Head Start Performance Standards.

Childcare providers who participate in collaboratives must be licensed by the state unless they are exempted by § 43-20-5 of the Mississippi Code.

Providers must also “select and utilize a nationally recognized assessment tool, approved by the State Department of Education, designed to document classroom quality.” Because the CLASS evaluation is used by MDE to monitor all collaboratives, childcare providers within collaboratives may use the MDE

Population Served Any child who has attained the age of four on or before September 1 of a school year is eligible to attend state-funded pre-K, where available, unless the matching funds’ source or a specific provider imposes additional restrictions. For example, a collaborative’s students attending a Head Start must still meet Head Start’s income guidelines.

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Appendix B Four-Year-Old Enrollment by Provider Type by County County

Seats by Provider Type

Total Seats

Collaborative Seats of Total

58

262

0

35

111

359

293

71

0

71

0

9

22

239

0

0

111

0

111

0

112

0

190

33

335

0

Calhoun

120

0

28

33

181

0

Carroll

23

0

18

0

41

0

Chickasaw

25

21

39

61

146

0

District

Blended

Head Start

Childcare

Adams

11

0

193

Alcorn

213

0

Amite

0

0

Attala

208

0

Benton

0

Bolivar

Choctaw

59

12

11

0

82

0

Claiborne

49

0

38

26

113

0

Clarke

99

0

29

44

172

87

Clay

74

0

79

27

180

0

Coahoma

115

23

105

61

304

213

Copiah

40

0

145

86

271

0

Covington

0

119

90

49

258

0

DeSoto

0

0

365

594

959

0

Forrest

32

138

163

397

730

80

Franklin

44

0

32

0

76

0

George

40

0

76

105

221

0

Greene

0

0

17

0

17

0

Grenada

74

0

102

80

256

158

Hancock

46

0

67

109

222

0

Harrison

75

0

667

673

1,415

0

Hinds

631

20

908

1,292

2,831

0

Holmes

15

0

155

43

213

0

Humphreys

16

0

89

35

140

0

Itawamba

0

0

105

86

191

0

Jackson

105

52

225

606

988

0

Jasper

19

0

113

5

137

0

Jefferson

20

0

83

11

114

0

Jefferson Davis

0

0

134

4

138

0

Jones

80

0

208

201

409

0

Kemper

28

0

32

2

62

0

Lafayette

155

0

53

193

401

0

Lamar

103

59

38

171

371

155

Lauderdale

196

0

179

282

657

0

Lawrence

0

78

0

15

93

0

Leake

0

0

80

82

162

0

Lee

266

115

63

510

954

0

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Four-Year-Old Enrollment by Provider Type by County County

Seats by Provider Type

Total Seats

Collaborative Seats of Total

121

351

230

114

140

318

0

152

157

191

538

0

87

15

91

384

577

147

0

47

35

80

162

0

Marshall

0

19

191

32

242

0

Monroe

118

0

78

130

326

226

Montgomery

35

0

33

14

82

0

Neshoba

101

0

92

76

269

0

Newton

0

0

80

78

158

0

Noxubee

21

0

63

37

121

0

Oktibbeha

37

0

133

162

332

173

Panola

0

76

173

83

332

0

Pearl River

37

115

0

239

391

124

Perry

0

0

23

15

38

0

Pike

32

0

212

166

410

179

Pontotoc

0

0

38

115

153

0

Prentiss

50

0

94

86

230

0

Quitman

25

0

43

1

69

0

Rankin

140

0

134

691

965

0

Scott

40

0

171

69

280

0

Sharkey

13

0

47

2

62

0

Simpson

0

0

110

61

171

0

Smith

0

0

53

42

95

0

Stone

0

0

49

92

141

0

Sunflower

82

0

146

37

265

242

Tallahatchie

9

32

63

12

116

92

District

Blended

Head Start

Childcare

Leflore

79

0

151

Lincoln

64

0

Lowndes

38

Madison Marion

Tate

0

0

98

65

163

0

Tippah

61

0

101

40

202

0

Tishomingo

0

0

84

72

156

0

Tunica

0

93

49

11

153

0

Union

130

0

90

64

284

0

Walthall

0

0

71

38

109

0

Warren

292

0

100

166

558

0

Washington

188

147

135

205

675

0

Wayne

123

0

67

28

218

0

Webster

0

0

30

19

49

0

Wilkinson

51

0

30

11

92

0

Winston

0

0

92

17

109

0

Yalobusha

40

0

38

29

107

0

Yazoo

20

32

147

21

220

0

TOTAL

5,006

1,365

8,851

10,049

25,271

2,399

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Appendix C: DEFINITIONS AND SOURCES NATIONAL DATA DEFINITIONS National Per Capita Income This number represents the mean income in the United States and is calculated by taking the sum of all income sources in the state and dividing it by the state’s total population. The figure is based on the 2013-2017 American Community Survey one-year estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau and is presented in 2017 inflation-adjusted dollars. The data and definition were provided by the online Data Center for the U.S. Census Bureau.

Percentage of Kids Living in Poverty (National) The percentage of kids living in poverty is the estimated number of individuals under the age of 18 living at or below 100% of the federal poverty line, as defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, in 2017. This data is reported by the U.S. Census Bureau from the American Community Survey for the year 2017. The data was provided by National KIDS COUNT through the KIDS COUNT online data center.

STATE DATA DEFINITIONS State Per Capita Income This number represents the mean income in the state of Mississippi and is calculated by taking the sum of all income sources in the state and dividing it by the state’s total population. The figure is based on the 2013-2017 American Community Survey five-year estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau and is presented in 2017 inflation-adjusted dollars. The data and definition were provided by Mississippi KIDS COUNT though the KIDS COUNT online data center.

Percentage of Kids Living in Single-Parent Households (State) The percentage of kids living in single-parent households represents the estimated percentage statewide of people under the age of 18 in households with unmarried householders. An “unmarried householder” is a person with no legal spouse present. Calculations take the estimated population under 18 years in households with unmarried householders divided by the total estimated population in family households under 18. Children living in nonfamily households are not included. The figures are based on 2013-2017 American Community Survey five-year estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. The data and definition were provided by Mississippi KIDS COUNT through the KIDS COUNT online data center.

Percentage of Kids Living in Poverty (State) The percentage of kids living in poverty is the estimated number of individuals under the age of 18 living at or below 100% of the federal poverty line, as defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, in 2017. The 90% confidence intervals for the state of Mississippi are 26.7% to 28.5%, with the average poverty rate for the state at 27.6%. This data is reported by the U.S. Census Bureau from the American Community Survey for the year 2017. The data was provided by Mississippi KIDS COUNT through the KIDS COUNT online data center.

Racial Demographics of the Community (State) This data provides percentages of Mississippi’s total population identifying as White, Black or African American, or any other racial group (“Other”) from the American Community Survey (ACS). ACS provides data for the following racial groups: White; Black or African American; American Indian and Alaska Native; Asian; Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander; some other race; and two or more races. In this report, the “Other” category is calculated by subtracting the sum of the percentages of Black and White persons from 100; therefore, the “Other” category includes any person in a community who does not self-identify as only Black or only White. All percentages were rounded to the nearest tenth.

In some communities, the percentage of people who identify with a race represented by the “Other” category was below 0.05. In these instances, the percentage of people in the “Other” category is reported as 0. The figures are based on 2013-2017 American Community Survey five-year estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. The raw data and its definition were provided by Mississippi KIDS COUNT through the KIDS COUNT online data center.

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State Average Instructional Expenditure Per Pupil (2017-2018) The state average instructional expenditure per pupil represents the amount of money that each school district spent on instructional and studentrelated expenditures during the 2017-2018 school year per child enrolled. It was calculated by averaging the instructional expenditure per pupil (see the district definitions) of each district that offered kindergarten in 2017-2018 (i.e., we excluded high school- or middle school-only districts). Instructional expenditures include teacher salaries, student activities, summer school, athletics, and other services, items, or programs for students. Instructional expenditures do not include administration, transportation, food, buildings, or other operational expenditures.

Total Number of Four-Year-Olds Enrolled in Licensed Childcare in Mississippi The total number of four-year-olds enrolled in a licensed childcare program in 2017-2018 was obtained primarily from a report generated by the Mississippi State Department of Health, which compiled the number of all four-year-old children by center present during a licensure inspection in 20172018. The report contained an entry for each childcare center inspected in 2017 and a separate entry for each center inspected in 2018. We combined these entries into a single spreadsheet and eliminated duplicates, prioritizing the 2017 numbers over the 2018 numbers if available. We then compared the list of centers and their enrollment to all the centers and their enrollment in our 2014-2015 report. When the 2014-2015 report showed a center not on our 2017-2018 list, we checked the MSDH website and performed a simple Google search to see if that center was still in operation. If it was, we then tried to pull up the actual MSDH inspection reports from the time period to see if we could find an estimate of four-year-olds. This led to our identifying additional centers for inclusion. We also used MSDH inspection reports when the report showed a very different enrollment number than what we had in 2014-2015 for the same center. In these cases, we checked inspection reports to see if the number had been entered wrongly into the database used to create the licensure report. If so, we updated the figure. To calculate the total, we combined the number of four-year-old children present at each childcare center.

Total Number of Four-Year-Olds Enrolled in Head Start in Mississippi The total number of four-year-olds enrolled in Head Start in 2017-2018 came from a variety of sources. Our primary source was a survey administered by the state Office of Head Start Collaboration and completed by directors of Head Start grantees. At times, we found the survey numbers to be inflated when compared to licensure data from MSDH, actual inspection reports, or the parent survey. If licensure data captured all the Head Start centers in a county and matched parent survey data, we gave second priority to MSDH licensure data. However, if we still found varying information, we looked for actual inspection reports and used those numbers when they clearly identified four-year-old pre-K enrollments. In a few cases, MSDH licensure numbers conflicted significantly with parent survey data, and there were no clear inspection reports. In these cases, we used parent survey data, especially if public school pre-K data from the parent survey was comparable to our district figures. For the centers that changed grantees, parent survey data was often the only available data. For one county—Attala—we imputed a figure from parent surveys because we had no other source. The parent surveys indicated that fewer than 10 students attended Head Start in Attala in 2017-2018. To be conservative, we imputed a figure of 9. To calculate the total, we combined the number of four-year-old children present at each Head Start.

Total Number of Four-Year-Olds Enrolled in Public Pre-K in Mississippi The total number of children enrolled in publicly funded programs serving four-year-olds was calculated by combining the number of four-year-old children in these programs. “Publicly funded programs” include all programs that are sustained by public dollars—school district, blended Head Start, Head Start, and “public” childcare programs. All collaborative seats are included in this total. The total number of public pre-K seats reflects pre-K enrollment.

State Average of Identified Student Percentage (2017-2018) The percent of students living in poverty is defined as the district’s “identified student percentage (ISP),” which is a federal rate combining the percentage of children who either qualify as “at risk” through federal support programs or whose families participate in federal poverty programs. The ISP uses family participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, or Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FPDIR); child eligibility for Head Start; classification of students as homeless, migrant, or runaway; or child participation in foster care. Each of these programs have different poverty eligibility guidelines (up to 185% of poverty) and may include children based on non-income factors. However, this is the most reliable source of poverty data by school district currently. (See the discussion in the Poverty and Access brief for why.) The ISP in a given year is based on prior year data, i.e., the 2018-2019 ISP is based on data from the 2017-2018 school year. For districts that consolidated between 2017-2018 and 2018-2019, we use a weighted average of the two previous districts’ ISPs. This affected three school districts: Holmes County Consolidated School District, Lamar County School District, and the Winona-Montgomery Consolidated School District. Since we understand the limitations of ISP, we recommend that readers understand district poverty rates as relative—a school district with a higher ISP has a higher percentage of students in poverty than another, even if the exact percentage of both may not be precise.

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Estimated Number of Four-Year-Olds (State) For the estimated number of four-year-olds in the state regardless of year, we use bridged-race population data generated by the U.S. Census Bureau and reported by the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The U.S. Census normally reports unbridged age data by age spans (e.g., under five). These single-year estimates by age are statistical estimates created from intercensal (between census) data and reflect estimated populations as of July 1 of a year. For this report, we used the 1990-2017 online database with bridged-race estimates of the July 1 resident population from the Vintage 2017 postcensal series, the revised 2000-2009 intercensal series, and the 1990-1999 intercensal series. We use the year leading into a child’s pre-K year, e.g., 2017 for the 2017-2018 school year, etc., for the estimate. The Census does not report error estimates for this data though they caution that “any small population group…has the most potential for error.”

COUNTY DATA DEFINITIONS County Per Capita Income This data represents the mean income in a county, calculated by taking the sum of all income sources in a county and dividing it by the county’s total population. The figures are based on 2013-2017 American Community Survey five-year estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, and they are in 2017 inflation-adjusted dollars. The data and definition were provided by Mississippi KIDS COUNT through the KIDS COUNT online data center.

Percentage of Kids Living in Single-Parent Households (County) The percentage of kids living in single-parent households represents the estimated percentage of people under the age of 18 in households with unmarried householders. An “unmarried householder” is a person with no legal spouse present. Calculations take the estimated population under 18 years in households with unmarried householders divided by the total estimated population in family households under 18. Children living in nonfamily households are not included. The figures are based on 2013-2017 American Community Survey five-year estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. The data and definition were provided by Mississippi KIDS COUNT through the KIDS COUNT online data center.

Racial Demographics of the Community (County) This data provides percentages of a county’s population identifying as White, Black or African American, or any other racial group (“Other”). ACS provides data for the following racial groups: White; Black or African American; American Indian and Alaska Native; Asian; Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander; some other race; and two or more races. In this report, the “Other” category is calculated by subtracting the sum of the percentages of Black and White persons from 100; therefore, the “Other” category includes any person in a community who does not self-identify as only Black or only White.

All percentages were rounded to the nearest tenth. In some communities, the percentage of people who identify with a race represented by the “Other” category was below 0.05. In these instances, the percentage of people in the “Other” category is reported as 0. The figures are based on 2013-2017 American Community Survey five-year estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. The raw data and its definition were provided by Mississippi KIDS COUNT through the KIDS COUNT online data center.

Percentage of Kids Living in Poverty (County) This data is reported by the U.S. Census Bureau Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) for the year 2017. The percentage of kids living in poverty is the estimated number of individuals under the age of 18 living at or below 100% of the federal poverty line, as defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, in 2017. The 90% confidence intervals for the state of Mississippi are 26.7% to 28.5%, with the average poverty rate for the state at 27.6%. The 90% confidence intervals would vary on a county-by-county basis but are not available for each county as the Census does not report error estimates for this data though they do caution that “any small population group... has the most potential for error.” The data was provided by the Mississippi KIDS COUNT through the KIDS COUNT online data center.

Estimated Number of Four-Year-Olds (County) For the estimated number of four-year-olds in each county regardless of year, we use bridged-race population data generated by the U.S. Census Bureau and reported by the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The U.S. Census normally reports unbridged age data by age spans (e.g., under five) on a county level. These single-year estimates by age and by county are statistical estimates created from intercensal (between census) data and reflect estimated populations as of July 1 of a year. For this report, we used the 1990-2017 online database with bridged-race estimates of the July 1 resident population from the Vintage 2017 postcensal series, the revised 2000-2009 intercensal series, and the 1990-1999 intercensal series. We use the year leading into a child’s pre-K year, e.g., 2017 for the 2017-2018 school year, etc., for the estimate. The Census does not report error estimates for this data though they caution that “any small population group…has the most potential for error.”

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Total Pre-K Seats (County) Total pre-K seats1 is the sum of school district, blended Head Start, Head Start, and licensed childcare (including any “public” childcare) enrollments for four-year-old children in a county in 2017-2018. This number includes all collaborative pre-K program enrollments as well. Please note that it reflects pre-K enrollment, not capacity.

Pre-K Access Rate for Four-Year-Olds (County) The pre-K2 access rate for four-year-olds in 2017-2018 is presented in a pie chart on the county dashboards. It represents countywide data. Each percentage presented uses as its numerator one of the data points described below and as the denominator the estimated number of four-year-olds in the county, as explained above. Therefore, each percentage presented in these pie charts should be interpreted as an estimate.

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Percentage of Children in Public Pre-K. The “percentage of children in public pre-K” uses as its numerator the total number of children enrolled in publicly funded programs serving four-year-olds in each respective county. “Publicly funded programs” include all programs that are sustained by public dollars—school district, blended Head Start, Head Start, and “public” childcare programs. All collaborative seats are included in this percentage. The “percentage of public pre-K seats” reflects pre-K enrollment, not capacity.

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Percentage of Children in District Pre-K. The “percentage of children in district pre-K” uses as its numerator the number of children enrolled when combining data from every school district program in the county. This data does not include children in school district programs exclusively designed to serve children with disabilities;3 however, these counts do include children with disabilities enrolled in regular education programs. In most cases, the number of seats in district(s) is constructed from the number of children who took the spring 2018 state pre-K assessment in each school district, with adjustments for blended Head Start (see below) and special education-only enrollments taken from MDE enrollment data. Please note that unlike 2014-2015, this percentage reflects enrollment in school district programs, not the maximum capacity a school district could serve.

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Percentage of Children in Blended Head Start. The “percentage of children in blended Head Start” uses as its numerator the number of children served in programs jointly funded by a school district and a Head Start partner in each county. Mississippi First constructed this data by comparing the addresses and names of Head Start centers to the addresses of public schools in Mississippi. Where we found Head Start sites that overlapped (either by site name or by address), we removed these numbers from both the district counts and the Head Start counts and placed them in their own category—blended Head Start. We also referenced our previous report to see if any previously identified blended programs did not appear in our new data set so that we could double-check program locations. For these cases, we called federal program coordinators and checked with the Mississippi Head Start collaboration director. If we could not confirm these definitively (usually because staff had changed and had no historic knowledge or because we could not get responses), we made our best guess based on all available evidence.

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Percentage of Children in Head Start. The “percentage of children in Head Start” uses as its numerator the total enrollment of four-yearolds at all Head Start centers in each county. This data came from a variety of sources. Our primary source was a survey administered by the state Office of Head Start Collaboration and completed by directors of Head Start grantees. At times, we found the survey numbers to be inflated when compared to licensure data from MSDH, actual inspection reports, or the parent survey. If licensure data captured all the Head Start centers in a county and matched parent survey data, we gave second priority to MSDH licensure data. However, if we still found varying information, we looked for actual inspection reports and used those numbers when they clearly identified four-year-old pre-K enrollments.

In a few cases, MSDH licensure numbers conflicted significantly with parent survey data, and there were no clear inspection reports. In these cases, we used parent survey data, especially if public school pre-K data from the parent survey was comparable to our district figures. For the centers that changed grantees, parent survey data was often the only available data. For one county—Attala—we imputed a figure from

In our previous report, we named this number the “Total Early Childhood Program Seats” because we could not be sure all the included programs provided education as well as care.

However, this careful phrasing did not seem to matter for lay readers of this report. We have opted for this simpler name in this report.

2 In our previous report, we named this rate the “Licensed Early Childhood Program” rate because it only reflects children enrolled in programs licensed by either the Mississippi State Department of Health or the Mississippi Department of Education (therefore excluding private school programs and unlicensed neighbor care) and because of the “education” versus “care” issue in the previous footnote. We have opted for this simpler name in this report with more explanation in the definitions.

3 As we explain in the body of the report, we do not include enrollment figures for special-education only programs in any of our school district numbers. This is because these counts do not always represent full-week, classroom-based services. These seats can fluctuate year to year based on the actual number of children a district is required to serve and may not be an accurate representation of generally available pre-K programs. Although access to special education-only pre-K is sometimes access to full-week, classroom-based pre-K, regular education pre-K seats best represent access to pre-K as they are available to all children regardless of disability status and always mean classroom-based pre-K. Finally, because special education populations are small, special education-only program numbers are often suppressed, making it hard to know exactly how many children are served.

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parent surveys because we had no other source. The parent surveys indicated that fewer than 10 students attended Head Start in Attala in 2017-2018. To be conservative, we imputed a figure of 9.

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Percentage of Children in Licensed Childcare. The “percentage of children in licensed childcare” uses as its numerator the total number of four-year-olds enrolled in licensed childcare programs in 2017-2018. We obtained this data primarily from a report generated by the Mississippi State Department of Health, which compiled the number of all four-year-old children by center present during a licensure inspection in 2017-2018. The report contained an entry to each childcare center inspected in 2017 and a separate entry for each center inspected in 2018. We combined these entries into a single spreadsheet and eliminated duplicates, prioritizing the 2017 numbers over the 2018 numbers if available. We then compared the list of centers and their enrollment to all the centers and their enrollment in our 2014-2015 report. When the 2014-2015 report showed a center not on our 2017-2018 list, we checked the MSDH website as well as performed a simple Google search to see if that center was still in operation. If it was, we then tried to pull up the actual MSDH inspection reports from the time period to see if we could find an estimate of four-year-olds. This led to our identifying additional centers for inclusion. We also used MSDH inspection reports when the report showed a very different enrollment number than what we had in 2014-2015 for the same center. In these cases, we checked inspection reports to see if the number had been entered wrongly into the database used to create the licensure report. If so, we updated the figure.

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Percentage of Four-Year-Olds without Access to Pre-K. This percentage uses as its numerator the difference between the number of four-year-olds enrolled in any program in 2017-2018 (school district, blended Head Start, Head Start, or licensed childcare) and the number of total four-year-olds in a county. Because both the numerator and denominator contain estimates, this percentage should be viewed as an estimate. Furthermore, some of these children may have been served in private school pre-K programs (which are neither licensed by MSDH or captured in MDE enrollment data). However, many of these children were likely served in unlicensed family or neighbor childcare or simply at home with a parent or guardian. We cannot know the exact reasons many children were in unlicensed or home care in their pre-K year.

Reasons may include a lack of a seat, lack of reliable transportation, cost, program hours, location, quality or program model, or parental choice to keep the child at home.

SCHOOL DISTRICT DATA DEFINITIONS K-12 School Funding (2017-2018) The school funding data in this report was obtained from the Mississippi Department of Education’s 2017-2018 Superintendent’s Annual Report. The figures included in this report represent the total amount of state, local, federal, and intermediate sources of revenue to schools.

Number of Pre-K-12 Students in District (2017-2018) This data was obtained from the online Data Explorer published by the Mississippi Department of Education. It represents the number of students that were enrolled in the district for the 2017-2018 school year.

District Rating (2017-2018) This data was obtained from the Mississippi Department of Education’s accountability reports for the 2017-2018 school year. The ratings in this report represent the official district-level ratings according to the 2017-2018 state accountability model. The ratings are based on the letter grades A, B, C, D, and F, with “A” being the highest and “F” the lowest.

District Instructional Expenditure Per Pupil (2017-2018) The district instructional expenditure per pupil represents the amount of money that each school district spent on instructional and student-related expenditures during the 2017-2018 school year per child enrolled. It was calculated by adding each district’s expenditures in functions 1000-1999 and 2100-2299 and dividing by the district’s average daily attendance. Instructional expenditures include teacher salaries, student activities, summer school, athletics, and other services, items, or programs for students. Instructional expenditures do not include administration, transportation, food, buildings, or other operational expenditures. District instructional expenditure per pupil data was obtained from MDE’s 2017-2018 Superintendent’s Annual Report; see that document for further explanation.

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Percent of Students Living in Poverty (2017-2018) The percent of students living in poverty is defined as the district’s “identified student percentage (ISP),” which is a federal rate combining the percentage of children who either qualify as “at risk” through federal support programs or whose families participate in federal poverty programs. The ISP uses family participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, or Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FPDIR); child eligibility for Head Start; classification of students as homeless, migrant, or runaway; or child participation in foster care. Each of these programs have different poverty eligibility guidelines (up to 185% of poverty) and may include children based on non-income factors. However, this is the most reliable source of poverty data by school district currently. (See the discussion in the Poverty and Access brief for why.) Since we understand the limitations of the ISP, we recommend that readers understand district poverty rates as relative—a school district with a higher ISP has a higher percentage of students in poverty than another, even if the exact percentage of both may not be precise.

Public Pre-K Access for 2018-2019 Kindergarteners by School District Access to public pre-K for 2018-2019 kindergarteners by school district is represented in a bar graph on the school district dashboard. This graphic shows districtwide data, and because some of the component data points are estimates, this bar graph is an estimate. The data include students served in fullweek, classroom-based programs that are not exclusively for students with disabilities.

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Total Number of Children in District Pre-K (2017-2018). This data reflects the number of children in each district enrolled in that district’s pre-K program in 2017-2018. This data does not include children in school district programs exclusively designed to serve children with disabilities;4 however, these counts do include children with disabilities enrolled in regular education programs. In most cases, the number of seats in district(s) is constructed from the number of children who took the spring 2018 state pre-K assessment in each school district, with adjustments for blended Head Start (see below) and special education-only enrollments taken from MDE enrollment data. Please note that unlike 2014-2015, this percentage reflects enrollment in school district programs, not the maximum capacity a school district could serve.

We assume that the same number of children who were enrolled in a district’s pre-K program in 2017-2018 matriculated to that district’s kindergarten class in 2018-2019, unless otherwise noted.

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Total Number of Blended Head Start Seats (2017-2018). This data reflects the number of children served in programs jointly funded by that school district and a Head Start partner. Mississippi First constructed this data by comparing the addresses and names of Head Start centers to the addresses of public schools in Mississippi. Where we found Head Start sites that overlapped (either by site name or by address), we removed these numbers from both the district counts and the Head Start counts and placed them in their own category—blended Head Start. We also referenced our previous report to see if any previously identified blended programs did not appear in our new data set so that we could double-check program locations. For these cases, we called federal program coordinators and checked with the Mississippi Head Start collaboration director. If we could not confirm these definitively (usually because staff had changed and had no historic knowledge or because we could not get responses), we made our best guess based on all available evidence. We assume that the same number of children who were enrolled in a district’s blended Head Start program in 2017-2018 matriculated to that district’s kindergarten class in 2018-2019, unless otherwise noted.

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Total Number of Children Who Transitioned to District from Head Start (2018-2019). This data reflects the number of 2018-2019 kindergarteners in each school district that we estimate attended Head Start in 2017-2018. The data was constructed by Mississippi First using a combination of the Head Start Survey, the parent survey, and the Blended Head Start data. Because the areas that Head Start centers serve are determined by county lines, not school district lines, allocating Head Start seats to school districts can be complicated in counties with multiple school districts. In 2014-2015, we had exact transition data from Head Start centers (data documenting where children matriculated after Head Start), and we found that nearly all students transitioned to the public kindergarten in the district where their Head Start center was located. As a result, for single-district counties, we use Head Start seat counts from 2017-2018 to estimate how many Head Start seats were available to 2018-2019 kindergarteners from those districts. For multiple-district counties, we rely on a combination of parent survey data, Head Start data, and blended Head Start data to impute transition figures as best as possible. The parent survey data can sometimes be unreliable as parents may only report the program where their child started or finished the year but not where their child spent the majority of the school year. If a seat is blended, there is no separate category on the survey and the fact that a seat is blended also might not be obvious to

As we explain in the body of the report, we do not include enrollment figures for special-education only programs in any of our school district numbers. This is because these counts do not always represent full-week, classroom-based services. These seats can fluctuate year to year based on the actual number of children a district is required to serve and may not be an accurate representation of generally available pre-K programs. Although access to special education-only pre-K is sometimes access to full-week, classroom-based pre-K, regular education pre-K seats best represent access to pre-K as they are available to all children regardless of disability status and always mean classroom-based pre-K. Finally, because special education populations are small, special education-only program numbers are often suppressed, making it hard to know exactly how many children are served.

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parents, leading them to assign the child either to Head Start or the school district. This can lead to over- or undercounting enrollment, which is why we used the parent survey only when no other sources were available. In general, though, parent survey data aligns to our Head Start and school district data sources, so we can be reasonably sure that it is an accurate reflection of transition data, except where noted in specific instances. However, we urge you to view these numbers as estimates and interpret them with caution, especially on an individual school district level.

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Total Number of Kindergarteners Not Attending Public Pre-K (2018-2019). This data represents the number of kindergarteners in school year 2018-2019 who did not attend a public pre-K program (school district, blended Head Start, Head Start, or “public” childcare) in 2017-2018. It was calculated by subtracting the number of students who transitioned from a public pre-K program in 2017-2018 from the number of enrolled kindergarteners in the district in 2018-2019. The students represented by this figure may have been served in licensed childcare or private school pre-K programs, or they may have not attended any licensed program.

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Total Number of Children Enrolled in Kindergarten (2018-2019). This data was obtained from the District and School Data tool on the Mississippi Department of Education’s website. The number represents all the students by district (traditional and charter) enrolled in kindergarten in 2018-2019 who were not in self-contained special education classrooms. We used 2018-2019 kindergarten enrollment data because it captures information about the 2017-2018 pre-K cohort.

SOURCES This section provides further information about sources, especially those that are not publicly available or those that are similar. Sources that need no further explanation are merely cited in Appendix B.

DATA FROM THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 2018 Spring Pre-K Assessment Data This data is reported on the MDE Office of Public Reporting’s 2018 Student Assessment website in a report titled, “Spring 2018 Pre-Kindergarten Assessment Results for Early Learning Collaboratives and Other Four-Year-Old Classrooms – Post Test.” It reflects the number of children enrolled in a district or collaborative pre-K program who participated in the spring 2018 state pre-K assessment. District numbers are summarized as well as reported by school. Collaborative numbers are summarized and reported by site, including non-district sites.

MDE Enrollment Data, 2017-2018 Pre-Kindergarten and 2018-2019 Kindergarten This data is reported on the MDE Office of Public Reporting’s School and District Data website. Data can be downloaded by school year and grade for the state as well as each district.

2018 Fall Kindergarten-Entry Assessment Data This data is reported on the MDE Office of Public Reporting’s 2019 Student Assessment website in a report titled, “Fall 2018 Kindergarten Readiness Assessment.” It reflects the number of kindergarteners in a district who took the 2018 fall kindergarten-entry assessment. We use this data source to impute the number of 2018-2019 kindergarteners for Okolona School District only because that was the only school district whose kindergarten enrollment was suppressed in 2018-2019 in the MDE enrollment data. After considering other years (2014-2015 had 49 kindergarten students, 20152016 had 54, 2016-2017 had 44, 2017-2018 had 35, and 2019-20 had 42) as well as the spring 2019 kindergarten-entry assessment number of 39, we felt 35 was a fair estimate.

Consolidated Federal Programs Application This data was collected from responses to survey questions included as part of the 2018 Consolidated Federal Programs Application (CFPA) administered

by MDE in the fall of 2017 for the 2018 federal fiscal year (October-September). All school districts in Mississippi must complete this application to receive federal education dollars; however, the questions pertaining to pre-K were optional. Mississippi First received a list of responses from all districts after making a public records request to MDE. The 2017-2018 CFPA asked each district to report the type of degrees teachers and assistants in the district held; the number of classrooms offering pre-K services; and the district’s pre-K teaching philosophy, curriculum, and special services. Eighty districts

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responded to at least one of the optional questions, but not all districts provided answers to all questions. The CFPA is typically completed by a school district’s federal programs officer who may or may not have in-depth knowledge of a district’s pre-K program. Like all information in the CFPA, the pre-K responses are self-reported and reflect information about the district, not school- or teacher-level data.

Teacher Licensure Data This data was collected from a report titled “2017-2018 PK Teachers and Endorsements” provided to Mississippi First by MDE after a public records request. Our request sought each license and endorsement held by each teacher in each district with a pre-K program. This data set provided the exact credentials of all lead teachers in the districts it included, but it did not include data about assistants’ credentials as this information is not routinely collected by MDE. This report included data for 68 districts.

Parent Survey Since 2014-2015, MDE has collected survey information from parents of entering kindergarteners through the Mississippi Student Information System.

Among other questions, this survey asks parents to report where their child attended pre-K, if applicable. Where this is the source of a particular number, we advise readers to interpret the figures with caution. Some districts did not have 100% response rates on these surveys. Furthermore, the parent survey data can sometimes be unreliable as parents may only report the program where their child started or finished the year but not where their child spent the majority of the school year. If a seat is blended, there is no separate category on the survey and the fact that a seat is blended also might not be obvious to parents, leading them to assign the child either to Head Start or the school district. This can lead to over- or undercounting enrollment, which is why we used the parent survey only when no other sources were available. In general, though, parent survey data aligns to our Head Start and school district data sources, so we can be reasonably sure that it is an accurate reflection of transition data, except where noted in specific instances.

Identified Student Percentage This data was collected from a report titled “CEP Annual Notification of Local Educational Agencies (LEA)” available on the Mississippi Department of Education’s website. We use the 2018-2019 version of this report, which is based on 2017-2018 data. For the districts that consolidated between 20172018 and 2018-2019, we use a weighted average of each of the former districts’ ISPs as reported in this document. We use enrollment as reported in the document or on the MDE Office of Public Reporting’s School and District Data website in the case of Lamar County School District.

DATA FROM THE OFFICE OF HEAD START COLLABORATION OR THE MISSISSIPPI HEAD START ASSOCIATION Head Start Survey This survey about the 2017-2018 school year was administered by the Office of Head Start Collaboration to all grantees still operating at that time (2018-2019). The survey was completed at the grantee level for each center or site operated by the grantee. Six grantees representing 51 counties responded to the survey. Mississippi First received the data related to enrollment questions only. Since the survey asked grantees to report enrollments for all locations, blended sites were also included in the responses; however, the data was not specific enough for Mississippi First to immediately identify these sites as blended. Mississippi First separated these responses as described in the Blended Head Start definitions. In Appendix D, data arising from this survey is cited as “Head Start Survey.”

Program Verification (Jefferson Davis County) Where we cite “program verification” in Appendix D, we are referring to correspondence with the Mississippi Head Start Association to verify program enrollment information directly with a Head Start provider. We only did this in the case of Jefferson Davis County because our two sources—parent survey data and MSDH inspection report numbers—conflicted significantly.

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DATA FROM THE MISSISSIPPI STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH Childcare Licensure Data This data was compiled by the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) from inspection reports of licensed childcare centers in 2017 and 2018.

In 2017-2018, these reports were handwritten and later entered into a database managed by MSDH. Mississippi First requested and received an Excel workbook of the number of all four-year-old children by center present during an inspection in 2017-2018. The spreadsheet contained an entry to each childcare center inspected in 2017 and a separate entry for each center inspected in 2018. We combined these entries into a single spreadsheet and eliminated duplicates, prioritizing the 2017 numbers over the 2018 numbers if available. In the childcare appendix, information from the MSDHcompiled report is in white with black text. In the Head Start appendix, information from the MSDH-compiled report is labeled “Childcare Licensure Data.” The exact date of this data can be found highlighted in red with red text in the childcare appendix.

MSDH Inspection Reports Original MSDH inspection reports for a particular center and a particular date are available on the MSDH Child Care Provider Search website for all childcare centers still in operation as of the date of search. The independent website childcarecenter.us also has inspection reports for some closed centers through their “Find Providers” search function. We do not differentiate where we found the report in either the childcare or Head Start appendix, but most original inspection reports were sourced from MSDH’s website. In the childcare appendix, entries added by Mississippi First from original inspection reports is highlighted in yellow with dark yellow text. In the Head Start appendix, information from original inspection reports is labeled “MSDH Inspection Report” with the date of the report noted.

Census Data on the Population of Four-Year-Old Children The US Census Bureau normally reports age data in age groups (e.g., under five). To verify the number of four-year-olds in the state, we requested single-year estimates by county. The US Census Bureau provided us with a spreadsheet titled “Bridged-Race Population Estimates 1990 - 2017” from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics. When we discovered this information could be generated from an online tool for prior years, we updated all of our estimates for four-year-olds in previous years as well. The exact data set used is the 1990-2017 online database with bridged-race estimates of the July 1 resident population from the Vintage 2017 postcensal series, the revised 2000-2009 intercensal series, and the 1990-1999 intercensal series. Please note that using data on the county level, or any small population group, has the most potential for error. However, the margins of error for the data were not reported by the Census.

For the online tool, see the CDC WONDER Online Database: http://wonder.cdc.gov/bridged-race-v2017.html.

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CITATIONS Ganucheau, Adam, and Candace McKenzie. 2021. “State Leaders Won’t Acknowledge That Young People Are Leaving Mississippi in Droves.” Mississippi Today, May 25. Accessed March 23, 2022. https://mississippitoday.org/2021/05/25/state-leaders-young-people-are-leaving-mississippi/.

Mississippi State Department of Health. 2006. Mississippi Vital Statistics 2006. Annual Report, Jackson, MS: Mississippi State Department of Health.

Accessed March 23, 2022. https://msdh.ms.gov/msdhsite/_static/resources/2400.pdf.

Mississippi State Department of Health. 2020. Selected Live Birth Statistics, Residents of Mississippi, 2019. Annual Report, Jackson, MS: Mississippi State Department of Health. Accessed March 23, 2022. https://msdh.ms.gov/phs/2019/Summary/bthsumm_state_2019.pdf.

Nargund, Geeta. 2009. “Declining Birth Rate in Developed Countries: A Radical Policy Re-Think Is Required.” Facts, Views & Vision in ObGyn 1(3):191–193. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4255510/pdf/FVVinObGyn-1-191-193.pdf.

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Appendix D:

Special Education-Only Pre-K This list was generated by cross-referencing three sources: 2018 spring test-taker data, MDE enrollment data, and CFPA survey responses. We used a process of elimination to determine if listed enrollments were general education pre-K enrollment (or blended Head Start) or self-contained special education pre-K enrollment. The districts listed here offered some type of pre-K program to children identified as needing special education services through the district’s Child Find process but did not offer classroom-based, full-week pre-K programs (either general education or blended Head Start) to all children regardless of disability status. If a district had some special education-only classrooms in addition to general education pre-K or blended Head Start, they do not appear on this list. Children residing in these school districts may have participated in a different type of pre-K, such as Head Start or private childcare.

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Appendix E: Head Start Center Information Each of the reports or surveys listed in the source of information column was derived from data collected by the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE), the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH), the federal Office of Head Start, the state Office of Head Start Collaboration, local school districts, and local Head Start grantees.

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AJFC Community Action Agency Mississippi Action For Progress, Inc.

Sadie V Thompson Head Start Center

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School District Parent Survey Data

Corinth Head Start

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Head Start Collaboration Office

Amite

AJFC Community Action Agency

Gloster Head Start

20

Amite

AJFC Community Action Agency

Liberty Head Start

51

Attala

Central Mississippi, Inc.

Kosciusko Head Start Center

9

Ashland Head Start Center

59

Head Start Collaboration Office

Hickory Flat Head Start Center

52

Head Start Collaboration Office

Billy J. McCain Head Start Center

27

Bolivar Co. Head Start - Cleveland #3

29

Cleveland #3 Head Start Annex

11

Cleveland Head Start Center #1

30

Cleveland Head Start Center #2

30

Shaw Head Start Center

32

Rosedale Head Start Center

31

South Calhoun Head Start

28

Head Start Collaboration Office

Vaiden Head Start Center

18

School District Parent Survey Data

McIntosh Head Start Center

39

Head Start Collaboration Office

Reform Head Start Center

11

School District Parent Survey Data

Richardson Head Start Center

38

Head Start Collaboration Office

Manuel Goff Head Start Center

29

MDE Spring 2018 Test-Taker Data

Clay County Head Start Center

79

Head Start Collaboration Office

Bertha Blackburn Head Start Center Aaron E. Henry Head Start Center

20 79

COI Head Start/CCC Baby Tiger

6

MDE Spring 2018 Test-Taker Data MDE Spring 2018 Test-Taker Data MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports

Adams Alcorn

Head Start Grantee

Coahoma Coahoma

Institute of Community Services, Inc. Institute of Community Services, Inc. Bolivar Community Action Agency Inc Bolivar Community Action Agency Inc Bolivar Community Action Agency Inc Bolivar Community Action Agency Inc Bolivar Community Action Agency Inc Bolivar Community Action Agency Inc Bolivar Community Action Agency Inc Mississippi Action For Progress, Inc. Central Mississippi, Inc. Mississippi Action For Progress, Inc. Central Mississippi, Inc. Mississippi Action For Progress, Inc. Friends of Children of Mississippi, Inc. Institute of Community Services, Inc. Coahoma Opportunities, Inc. Coahoma Opportunities, Inc.

Coahoma

Coahoma Opportunities, Inc.

Benton Benton Bolivar Bolivar Bolivar Bolivar Bolivar Bolivar Bolivar Calhoun Carroll Chickasaw Choctaw Claiborne Clarke Clay

MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports Imputed from School District Parent Survey Data

MSDH Inspection Report (12/12/2017) MSDH Inspection Report (12/12/2017) MSDH Inspection Report (9/18/2017) MSDH Inspection Report (1/9/2018) MSDH Inspection Report (3/29/2018) MSDH Inspection Report (11/29/2017) MSDH Inspection Report (11/29/2017)

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County Copiah Copiah Covington Covington Desoto Desoto Desoto Forrest Forrest Franklin George George Greene Grenada Hancock Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds

Head Start Grantee Friends of Children of Mississippi, Inc. Friends of Children of Mississippi, Inc. Five County Child Development Program, Inc. Five County Child Development Program, Inc. Institute of Community Services, Inc. Institute of Community Services, Inc. Institute of Community Services, Inc. Pearl River Valley Opportunity, Inc. Pearl River Valley Opportunity, Inc. Mississippi Action For Progress, Inc. Singing River Educational Association, INC Singing River Educational Association, INC Friends of Children of Mississippi, Inc. Institute of Community Services, Inc. Mississippi Action For Progress, Inc. Gulf Coast Community Action Agency Gulf Coast Community Action Agency Gulf Coast Community Action Agency Gulf Coast Community Action Agency Gulf Coast Community Action Agency Gulf Coast Community Action Agency Hinds County Human Resource Agency Hinds County Human Resource Agency Hinds County Human Resource Agency Hinds County Human Resource Agency Hinds County Human Resource Agency Hinds County Human Resource Agency Hinds County Human Resource Agency

Center Name Brushy Creek Head Start Center

Enrollment 80

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Source of Information MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports

Mt. Sinai Head Start Center

65

Collins Head Start Center

55

Head Start Collaboration Office

Sanderson Farm

35

Head Start Collaboration Office

Eloise McClinton Head Start Center

193

Head Start Collaboration Office

Hernando Head Start

75

Head Start Collaboration Office

Walls Head Start Center

97

Head Start Collaboration Office

Charles Johnson Head Start W.H. Jones Head Start/Early Head Start

60 103

MDE Spring 2018 Test-Taker Data Head Start Collaboration Office

Franklin County Head Start Complex

32

Head Start Collaboration Office

Basin Head Start Center

56

Head Start Collaboration Office

Benndale Head Start Center

20

Head Start Collaboration Office

Union/Green Head Start Center

17

MSDH Inspection Report 8/31/2017

Grenada Head Start

102

Head Start Collaboration Office

Bay Waveland Head Start Center

67

Head Start Collaboration Office

Blanche Saucier Head Start

47

Doyle Moffett Head Start

94

Dr. Gilbert R. Mason Sr. Head Start

104

Harry C. Tartt Head Start Center

121

Isiah Fredericks Head Start Center

185

Linda C. Lyons Head Start Center

116

Eulander P. Kendrick Head Start Center

21

Gertrude E. Ellis Head Start Center

73

Martin Head Start Center

102

Mary C. Jones Head Start Center

109

Mid-Town Head Start Center

80

Oak Forest Head Start

70

Richard Brandon Head Start Center

100

MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports

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County Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Holmes Holmes Holmes Holmes Holmes Humphreys Issaquena Itawamba Itawamba Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jasper Jasper Jefferson Jefferson Davis Jones Jones Kemper Lafayette Lamar Lamar

Head Start Grantee

Center Name

Enrollment

South Jackson Head Start Center

60

St. Thomas Head Start Center

74

Welcome Head Start Center

20

Westside Head Start

173

Edwards Head Start Center

26

Ambrose Durant Goodman Pickens Tchula

155

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Source of Information

Hinds County Human Resource Agency Hinds County Human Resource Agency Hinds County Human Resource Agency Hinds County Human Resource Agency Hinds County Human Resource Agency Central Mississippi, Inc. Central Mississippi, Inc. Central Mississippi, Inc. Central Mississippi, Inc. Central Mississippi, Inc. Friends of Children of Mississippi, Inc. Friends of Children of Mississippi, Inc. Mississippi Action For Progress, Inc. Mississippi Action For Progress, Inc. Jackson County Civic Action Committee, Inc. Jackson County Civic Action Committee, Inc. Jackson County Civic Action Committee, Inc. Jackson County Civic Action Committee, Inc. Jackson County Civic Action Committee, Inc. Friends of Children of Mississippi, Inc. Friends of Children of Mississippi, Inc.

Riven Oaks Head Start

89

School District Parent Survey Data

Ripley/Blackwell Head Start Center

47

MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports

Fulton Head Start

50

Head Start Collaboration Office

Mantachie Center

55

Head Start Collaboration Office

Gautier Head Start Center

54

Pascagoula Head Start Center

66

Taconi Head Start

54

Vancleave Head Start Center

37

Jefferson Street Head Start Center

14

L.N. Payton Head Start Center

56

Marjorie Porter Head Start

57

MSDH Inspection Report 1/12/2018

AJFC Community Action Agency

Fayette Head Start

83

MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports

JE Johnson

134

Program verification

Queen Olive Head Start Center

117

MSDH Inspection Report 1/23/2018

King Start Head Start/Early Head Start

91

MSDH Inspection Report 10/12/2017

Dekalb Head Start Center

32

MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports

Mary Cathey Head Start

53

Head Start Collaboration Office

Clifton Preston, Sr. Head Start Center Lumberton Head Start Center

19 19

Head Start Collaboration Office Head Start Collaboration Office

Five County Child Development Program, Inc. Friends of Children of Mississippi, Inc. Friends of Children of Mississippi, Inc. Friends of Children of Mississippi, Inc. Institute of Community Services, Inc. Pearl River Valley Opportunity, Inc. Pearl River Valley Opportunity, Inc.

MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports School District Parent Survey Data School District Parent Survey Data School District Parent Survey Data School District Parent Survey Data School District Parent Survey Data

MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports

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County Lauderdale Lauderdale Lauderdale Lawrence Leake Lee Lee Leflore Lincoln Lincoln Lowndes Madison Madison Marion Marion Marshall Marshall Monroe Monroe Montgomery Neshoba Newton Noxubee Oktibbeha Panola Panola Pearl River Perry Pike

Head Start Grantee

Center Name

Enrollment

Mississippi Action For Progress, Charles L. Young, Sr. Child Development Center 99 Inc. Mississippi Action For Progress, Toomsuba Head Start Center 33 Inc. Mississippi Action For Progress, Meridian Center Head Start 47 Inc. Five County Child Development BLENDED ONLY Program, Inc. Friends of Children of Mississippi, Winson and Dovie Hudson Head Start Center 80 Inc. Mississippi Action For Progress, Northside Head Start 24 Inc. Mississippi Action For Progress, Saltillo Head Start 39 Inc. Mississippi Action For Progress, Gilliam Head Start Center 151 Inc. Mississippi Action For Progress, Lindsey Head Start Center 65 Inc. Mississippi Action For Progress, New Zion Head Start Center 49 Inc. Institute of Community Services, Coleman Head Start Center 157 Inc. Friends of Children of Mississippi, Dr. Marvin Hogan Head Start/Early Head Start 32 Inc. Center Friends of Children of Mississippi, Ab Devine, Co Chinn, We Garrett Head Start 59 Inc. Pearl River Valley Opportunity, Inc. Hub Head Start Center 34 Pearl River Valley Opportunity, Inc. Kokomo Head Start Center 1 Institute of Community Services, Erma Rogers Head Start Center 98 Inc. Institute of Community Services, Marjean Taylor – Myatt Head Start Center 93 Inc. Mississippi Action For Progress, Aberdeen Head Start Center 41 Inc. Mississippi Action For Progress, West Amory Head Start Center 37 Inc. Central Mississippi, Inc. Duck Hill 33 Mississippi Action For Progress, Exhibit Hall Head Start Center 92 Inc. Friends of Children of Mississippi, Crossroads Head Start 80 Inc. Institute of Community Services, Noxubee County Head Start Center 63 Inc. Institute of Community Services, Oktibbeha County Head Start Center 133 Inc. Institute of Community Services, Batesville Head Start Center 123 Inc. Institute of Community Services, Crenshaw Head Start Center 50 Inc. BLENDED ONLY Mississippi Action For Progress, Richton Head Start Center 23 Inc. Pearl River Valley Opportunity, Inc. Magnolia Head Start Center 24

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Source of Information Head Start Collaboration Office Head Start Collaboration Office Head Start Collaboration Office

MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports Head Start Collaboration Office Head Start Collaboration Office Head Start Collaboration Office Head Start Collaboration Office Head Start Collaboration Office MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports MDE Spring 2018 Test-Taker Data Head Start Collaboration Office Head Start Collaboration Office Head Start Collaboration Office Head Start Collaboration Office Head Start Collaboration Office Head Start Collaboration Office School District Parent Survey Data Head Start Collaboration Office MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports Head Start Collaboration Office Head Start Collaboration Office Head Start Collaboration Office Head Start Collaboration Office Head Start Collaboration Office Head Start Collaboration Office

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County

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Source of Information

Head Start Grantee

Center Name

Enrollment

Westbrook Head Start Center Yale Head Start Center Utopian Head Start Center Pleasant Grove Head Start Center Kennedy Head Start Center

58 29 0 1 100

Head Start Collaboration Office Head Start Collaboration Office Head Start Collaboration Office Head Start Collaboration Office Head Start Collaboration Office

Pontotoc Head Start

38

Head Start Collaboration Office

Booneville Head Start

59

Head Start Collaboration Office

Wheeler Head Start Center

35

Head Start Collaboration Office

Quitman County Head Start

43

Head Start Collaboration Office

McCall Head Start Center

46

New Hope Head Start Center

33

St. James Head Start Center

55

Forest Community Center Head Start

141

Head Start Collaboration Office

Midway Center

30

Head Start Collaboration Office

Magee Head Start Center

51

Head Start Collaboration Office

Mendenhall

38

Head Start Collaboration Office

Mendenhall II

21

Head Start Collaboration Office

Cherry Grove Head Start

53

School District Parent Survey Data

Stone

Pearl River Valley Opportunity, Inc. Pearl River Valley Opportunity, Inc. Pearl River Valley Opportunity, Inc. Pearl River Valley Opportunity, Inc. Pearl River Valley Opportunity, Inc. Mississippi Action For Progress, Inc. Mississippi Action For Progress, Inc. Mississippi Action For Progress, Inc. Institute of Community Services, Inc. Friends of Children of Mississippi, Inc. Friends of Children of Mississippi, Inc. Friends of Children of Mississippi, Inc. Mississippi Action For Progress, Inc. Mississippi Action For Progress, Inc. Five County Child Development Program, Inc. Five County Child Development Program, Inc. Five County Child Development Program, Inc. Friends of Children of Mississippi, Inc. Pearl River Valley Opportunity, Inc.

49

Head Start Collaboration Office

Sunflower

Save the Children

Sunflower Sunflower

Save the Children Save the Children

Sunflower

Save the Children

Stone County Head Start Save the Children Early Head Start/Head Start Moorhead Save the Children Head Start Ruleville Save the Children Head Start – Cassie Penn Save the Children Head Start/Early Head Start Drew

Pike Pike Pike Pike Pike Pontotoc Prentiss Prentiss Quitman Rankin Rankin Rankin Scott Scott Simpson Simpson Simpson Smith

Tallahatchie Tallahatchie Tate Tippah Tippah Tishomingo Tishomingo

Institute of Community Services, Inc. Institute of Community Services, Inc. Institute of Community Services, Inc. Mississippi Action For Progress, Inc. Mississippi Action For Progress, Inc. Mississippi Action For Progress, Inc. Mississippi Action For Progress, Inc.

MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports

School District Parent Survey Data 146

School District Parent Survey Data School District Parent Survey Data School District Parent Survey Data

Eva Covington Head Start Center

34

Head Start Collaboration Office

West Tallahatchie Head Start Center

29

Head Start Collaboration Office

Clen Moore Head Start Center

98

Head Start Collaboration Office

Chalybeate Head Start

48

Head Start Collaboration Office

Prather Head Start

53

Head Start Collaboration Office

Belmont Head Start

31

Head Start Collaboration Office

Burnsville Head Start

19

Head Start Collaboration Office

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County

Head Start Grantee

Center Name

Enrollment

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Source of Information

Webster

Mississippi Action For Progress, Iuka Head Start Inc. Institute of Community Services, Tunica County Head Start Inc. Mississippi Action For Progress, Union County Head Start Inc. Pearl River Valley Opportunity, Inc. Lexie Head Start Center Pearl River Valley Opportunity, Inc. St. Paul Head Start Center Mississippi Action For Progress, King’s Head Start Center Inc. Mississippi Action For Progress, Cedars Head Start Inc. Washington County Opportunities, Fulwiler Head Start/Early Head Start Inc. Washington County Opportunities, McLemore-Ward Head Start/Early Head Start Inc. Washington County Opportunities, Page Moore Head Start/Early Head Start Inc. Washington County Opportunities, Garrett Hall Head Start Inc. Friends of Children of Mississippi, Bryant Turner Head Start Center Inc. Central Mississippi, Inc. Eupora

Wilkinson

AJFC Community Action Agency

Centreville Head Start Center

19

Wilkinson

AJFC Community Action Agency

Woodville Head Start Center

11

Winston County Complex

92

Head Start Collaboration Office

Water Valley Head Start Center

38

Head Start Collaboration Office

Yazoo City Head Start Center

147

Head Start Collaboration Office

Tishomingo Tunica Union Walthall Walthall Warren Warren Washington Washington Washington Washington Wayne

Winston Yalobusha Yazoo

Mississippi Action For Progress, Inc. Mississippi Action For Progress, Inc. Mississippi Action For Progress, Inc.

34

Head Start Collaboration Office

49

Head Start Collaboration Office

90

Head Start Collaboration Office

45 26

Head Start Collaboration Office Head Start Collaboration Office

57

Head Start Collaboration Office

43

Head Start Collaboration Office

135

School District Parent Survey Data

67

School District Parent Survey Data

30

School District Parent Survey Data MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports

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Appendix F: Childcare Center Information from MSDH Center Name CROWNS & TIARAS ACADEMY DOT’S PLAY AND LEARN CHILDCARE HANSEL & GRETEL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER HOLY FAMILY EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER JEFFERSON STREET UMC PRESCHOOL KID’S COLLEGE CHILD CARE AND LEARNING CENTER PLAYSCHOOL CHILDCARE & LEARNING CENTER PRESBYTERIAN PLAYSCHOOL PRINCE STREET DAYCARE CENTER SADIE V THOMPSON HEAD START CENTER BETTY AND DEBBIES DAY CARE CORINTH HEAD START CROSSROADS LEARNING CENTER FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH KINDERGARTEN GIVING TREE II LEARNING CENTER JUST KIDS 1 KID KOUNTRY KIDDIE KOLLEGE KIDZ KINGDOM LITTLE BLESSINGS MUNCHKIN LAND GLOSTER HEADSTART LIBERTY HEADSTART 3 STEP DAYCARE ATTALA CORPORATE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER BRIGHT FUTURES LEARNING ACADEMY FIRST BAPTIST CHILDCARE WEE KIDS CHILDREN’S MINISTRY ASHLAND HEAD START CENTER HICKORY FLAT HEAD START CENTER BILLY J. MCCAIN HEAD START CENTER BLESSED KIDS OF SOLID ROCK BOLIVAR CO. HEAD START - CLEVELAND #3 CLEVELAND #3 HEAD START ANNEX CLEVELAND HEAD START CENTER #1 CLEVELAND HEAD START CENTER #2 DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY HAMILTON-WHITE CHILD DEV. CENTER HAPPY FACES DAY CARE AND LEARNING CENTER

County

Number of Four-Year-Olds

Inspection Date and Time

Adams Adams Adams Adams Adams Adams Adams Adams Adams Adams Alcorn Alcorn Alcorn Alcorn Alcorn Alcorn Alcorn Alcorn Alcorn Alcorn Alcorn Amite Amite Attala Attala Attala Attala Attala Benton Benton Bolivar Bolivar Bolivar Bolivar Bolivar Bolivar

4 1 5 19 1 3 12 8 5 259 3 49 25 25 21 13 7 7 2 6 2 20 51 1 8 3 6 4 46 26 65 2 40 20 51 61

8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/25/17 8:52 AM 10/16/17 8:48 AM 10/26/17 10:11 AM 12/18/17 12:53 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/10/17 11:53 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/20/17 11:43 AM 11/28/17 11:08 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/20/17 10:13 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/13/17 11:34 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/28/17 2:06 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/24/17 8:40 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/29/17 10:30 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM

Bolivar

2

8/18/17 12:00 AM

Bolivar

3

8/18/17 12:00 AM

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County

Number of Four-Year-Olds

MOTHER GOOSE LEARNING CENTER I

Bolivar

4

8/18/17 12:00 AM

PERFECTED PRAISE CHILDCARE & LEARNING CENTER

Bolivar

3

10/5/17 3:43 PM

PLAY & LEARN CHILDCARE, INC. ROSEDALE HEAD START CENTER SHAW HEAD START CENTER SPELLS WORLD FAMILY DAY CARE TLC LEARNING CENTER KIDDIE’S CONNECTION DAY CARE CENTER KIDS RAINBOW DAYCARE INC. KREATIVE KIDS LEARNING CENTER LEWIS MEMORIAL METHODIST DAY CARE PLAY AND LEARN DAYCARE SOUTH CALHOUN HEAD START TINY TOT DAYCARE ARMSTRONG’S KIDDIE CARE & LEARNING CENTER FBC PRESCHOOL-KINDERGARTEN HAZEL IVY CHILD CARE JAMIE’S DAY CARE CENTER KIDS FIRST PRESCHOOL & CHILD CARE CTR. LITTLE HOOTS CHILDCARE & LEARNING CENTER MCINTOSH HEAD START POTTER’S HOUSE FAMILY SERVICE CENTER PRECIOUS HANDS DAYCARE & LEARNING CENTER II CLAIBORNE COUNTY VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL GOD’S LITTLE BUSY BEES CHILDCARE & LEARNING CENTER, INC. HEAVENLY ANGELS DAYCARE LITTLE KIDS UNIVERSITY RICHARDSON HEAD START CENTER FIRST UNITED METHODIST PRESCHOOL KIDS LEARNING KORNER KIDS LEARNING KORNER AFTER SCHOOL MANUEL GOFF HEADSTART CENTER THE SHEPHERD’S STAFF TODDLERS’ DEPOT CHILD CARE CLAY COUNTY COMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER CLAY COUNTY HEAD START CENTER FIRST BAPTIST EARLY CHILDHOOD MINISTRY FUMC CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER START SMART CHILDCARE CENTER AARON E. HENRY HEAD START CENTER

Bolivar Bolivar Bolivar Bolivar Bolivar Calhoun Calhoun Calhoun Calhoun Calhoun Calhoun Calhoun Chickasaw Chickasaw Chickasaw Chickasaw Chickasaw Chickasaw Chickasaw Chickasaw Chickasaw Claiborne

14 42 35 1 4 7 5 6 6 3 26 6 1 42 5 3 3 1 28 3 3 4

10/27/17 3:45 PM 12/28/17 2:26 PM 9/29/17 4:36 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/5/17 10:35 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/11/17 11:47 AM 11/15/17 3:10 PM 12/5/17 5:18 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/26/17 2:12 PM 11/10/17 12:08 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/20/17 9:54 AM 10/16/17 3:10 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/5/17 12:53 PM 10/23/17 3:27 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM

Claiborne

2

8/18/17 12:00 AM

Claiborne Claiborne Claiborne Clarke Clarke Clarke Clarke Clarke Clarke Clay Clay Clay Clay Clay Coahoma

18 2 55 12 4 15 54 7 6 5 86 7 12 3 167

8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/2/17 10:53 AM 12/7/17 1:45 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/19/17 7:36 AM 10/25/17 10:51 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/20/17 3:53 PM 10/31/17 11:21 AM 10/2/17 1:51 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/23/17 11:29 AM 9/27/17 4:41 PM

Center Name

Inspection Date and Time

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Center Name BERTHA BLACKBURN HEAD START CENTER BEST FRIENDS II COI HEAD START/CCC BABY TIGER CREATIVE CHILDREN CHILD CARE CENTER FRIARS POINT HEAD START CENTER HOME AWAY FROM HOME DAY CARE HOPE RESOURCE & ACTIVITY CTR. JONESTOWN FAMILY CENTER MONTESSORI SCHOOL JONESTOWN HEAD START LITTLE SUNSHINE CHILDCARE CENTER MOVING FORWARD LEARNING CENTER NEIGHBORHOOD CHILD CARE SERVICE RENE’S ALL IN ONE RESOURCE CENTER BRUSHY CREEK HEAD START CENTER COPIAH LINCOLN COMMUNITY COLLEGE CHILDCARE CENTER F.U.T.U.R.E, INC FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH KINDERGARTEN FREDONIA’S CHRISTIAN DAY CARE CENTER HAZLEHURST UMC CHILD CARE & PRESCHOOL LITTLE PEOPLE DAYCARE CENTER MT. SINAI HEAD START CENTER PRECIOUS MOMENTS LEARNING CENTER WESSON BAPTIST KINDERKARE COLLINS HEAD START CENTER CRADLE TO CRAYONS II SANDERSON FARMS INC., CHILD CARE CENTER BUSY BODIES,INC. BUSY BUNDLES OF JOY LC CAMPUS KIDS ACADEMY CARRIAGE HILLS PRESCHOOL ELOISE MCCLINTON HEAD START CENTER EVOLVE LEARNING HUB LLC FAITH PRESCHOOL ACADEMY, OLIVE BRANCH FAITH PRESCHOOL ACADEMY, SNOWDEN FAITH PRESCHOOL ACADEMY, SOUTHAVEN FIRST BAPTIST OLIVE BRANCH DAYCARE/KINDERGARTEN FIRST STEP DAY CARE & PRESCHOOL GETWELL DAY SCHOOL GREENBROOK WEE CARE HERNANDO BAPTIST KINDERGARTEN HERNANDO HEADSTART

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County

Number of Four-Year-Olds

Inspection Date and Time

Coahoma Coahoma Coahoma Coahoma Coahoma Coahoma Coahoma Coahoma Coahoma Coahoma Coahoma Coahoma Coahoma Copiah

35 2 6 3 13 4 2 8 10 15 7 3 3 80

9/27/17 4:05 PM 10/25/17 5:40 PM 9/18/17 12:40 PM 12/29/17 4:39 PM 9/28/17 10:11 AM 12/29/17 9:40 PM 9/27/17 9:07 AM 8/8/18 1:57 PM 9/28/17 11:08 AM 11/28/18 12:21 PM 9/26/17 11:25 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM

Copiah

8

9/7/17 2:07 PM

Copiah Copiah Copiah Copiah Copiah Copiah Copiah Copiah Covington Covington Covington Desoto Desoto Desoto Desoto Desoto DeSoto Desoto Desoto Desoto Desoto Desoto Desoto Desoto Desoto Desoto

8 20 1 25 4 65 4 16 40 12 37 14 8 11 36 207 16 53 40 38 31 8 46 11 52 77

11/3/17 1:48 PM 9/13/17 10:04 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/21/17 9:27 AM 12/29/17 1:09 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/10/17 9:15 AM 12/20/17 12:24 PM 9/27/17 1:36 PM 10/27/17 11:11 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/31/17 1:33 PM 12/31/18 12:50 PM 11/28/17 1:31 PM 11/28/17 1:17 PM 11/28/17 1:24 PM 10/3/17 9:41 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/13/17 3:37 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/18/17 10:12 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM

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Center Name

County

Number of Four-Year-Olds

Inspection Date and Time

HERNANDO METHODIST PRESCHOOL KACO’S KIDS, LLC KIDS LEARNING ACADEMY KIDS R KIDS LA PETITE ACADEMY LEARN AND GROW CHILD CARE LLC LIL SOUTHERN DREAMERS LITTLE SAINTS ACADEMY LITTLE STEPPING STONES CHILD ENRICHMENT CENTER LUCY JONES DAYCARE MAPLES LEARNING CENTER MITI KIDS CHILDCARE & LEARNING CENTER INTERNATIONAL INC. SOUTHAVEN COMMUNITY CHURCH DAYCARE SOUTHAVEN FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH & EDUCATIONAL CENTER ST. LUKE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY WALLS HEAD START CENTER ANGEL ACADEMY ASBURY PLAYSCHOOL BETTIE’S ABC ADVANCED CHILD CARE CARTERVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL CHARLES JOHNSON HEAD START CONNIE’S CHILD CARE CRAYON COLLEGE LEARNING CENTER CREATIVE KIDS EARLY ENCOUNTERS FIRST START ACADEMY HAPPY MEMORIES KANGAROO POUCH CHILDCARE & PRESCHOOL, INC. LIL’ TEKNON LEARNING CENTER, LLC M&M LEARNING FACTORY MAIN STREET PRESCHOOL MIMI’S PLAYHOUSE MONTESSORI CHILDREN’S HOUSE N.E.E.D.S. II CHILD CARE CENTER OAK GROVE LEARNING CENTER OASIS TRAINING CENTER PLAY-SCHOOL CHILD CARE CENTER RIVER OF LIFE LEARNING CENTER SMART START COMMUNITY SCHOOL,LLC THE ACADEMY OF KIDS

Desoto Desoto Desoto Desoto Desoto Desoto Desoto Desoto Desoto Desoto Desoto

57 22 4 34 20 5 6 10 5 14 9

9/22/17 4:12 PM 10/25/17 2:46 PM 12/28/17 1:05 PM 9/18/17 10:21 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/12/17 12:29 PM 11/21/17 2:10 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM

Desoto

5

8/18/17 12:00 AM

Desoto

10

12/27/17 4:24 PM

Desoto

13

8/18/17 12:00 AM

Desoto Desoto Forrest Forrest Forrest Forrest Forrest Forrest Forrest Forrest Forrest Forrest Forrest Forrest Forrest Forrest Forrest Forrest Forrest Forrest Forrest Forrest Forrest Forrest Forrest Forrest

16 103 2 26 5 27 60 1 13 44 20 1 14 4 3 32 8 26 7 6 11 4 32 30 12 5

10/20/17 12:52 PM 11/1/17 10:15 AM 9/13/17 12:34 PM 10/4/17 12:03 PM 8/30/17 10:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/6/17 9:12 AM 11/2/17 1:29 PM 9/27/17 11:08 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/21/17 2:49 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/19/17 8:26 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/12/17 2:16 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/20/17 6:44 AM 12/27/17 10:37 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/13/17 9:37 AM 10/24/18 4:40 PM

STATE OF PRE-K SERIES: Access to Pre-K, 2017-2018

Center Name TJ’S LEARNING CENTER TOTAL KIDS ZONE TRINITY PLAY SCHOOL TUNJIA’S LITTLE ONES CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER USM CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT W.H. JONES HEAD START/EARLY HEAD START WEST POINT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FRANKLIN HEADSTART COMPLEX AGRICOLA BAPTIST PRESCHOOL BASIN HEAD START CENTER BENNDALE HEAD START CENTER BUSY BEE LEARNING CENTER, LLC FIRST BAPTIST WEEKDAY EDUCATION PROGRAM KUNTRY KIDZ LEARNING TREE CHILDCARE UNION/GREENE HEAD START CENTER A RAY OF HOPE PRESCHOOL & CHILD CARE CENTER BOUNTIFUL BLESSING PRESCHOOL, LLC GRENADA HEADSTART FREEMAN’S LITTLE PEOPLE’S PLACE, INC. KIDS KASTLE LAKE CITY KIDS MS. MARY’S LITTLE LEARNERS INC. REACHING RAINBOWS BAY WAVELAND HEADSTART CENTER CAMP CARE DHCC LITTLE SCHOOL DIAMONDHEAD CHILD CARE CENTER HANCOCK COUNTY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER HANCOCK COUNTY STARS - BAY-WAVELAND HANCOCK COUNTY STARS - EAST HANCOCK COUNTY STARS - NORTH SMALL BLESSINGS PRESCHOOL THE HAWK’S NEST CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER A PLACE TO GROW ABC CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF BILOXI BEL AIRE BAPTIST PRESCHOOL BLANCHE SAUCIER HEAD START BRILLIANT CHILD CARE AND LEARNING CENTER CARE A LOT DAYCARE CENTER CATERPILLAR DEVELOPMENT CENTER

County

Number of Four-Year-Olds

Forrest Forrest Forrest Forrest Forrest Forrest Forrest Franklin George George George George George George George Greene Grenada Grenada Grenada Grenada Grenada Grenada Grenada Grenada Hancock Hancock Hancock Hancock Hancock Hancock Hancock Hancock Hancock Hancock Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison

15 3 10 10 15 156 11 30 42 37 22 13 43 6 1 20 12 8 118 20 3 14 7 16 58 12 13 14 14 13 10 10 15 8 12 32 31 47 7 16 16

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Inspection Date and Time 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/29/17 10:44 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/26/17 9:17 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/24/17 4:31 PM 10/27/17 9:53 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/18/17 8:40 AM 11/10/17 4:10 PM 11/29/17 4:04 PM 9/12/17 9:37 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/29/17 7:51 AM 9/6/17 10:49 AM 10/31/17 2:21 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/18/17 9:09 PM 10/24/17 6:38 PM 12/5/17 11:59 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/18/17 10:44 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 3/4/18 9:01 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 3/8/18 12:00 AM 12/5/17 1:25 PM 10/9/17 11:08 AM 11/5/18 12:24 PM 11/27/17 3:36 AM 10/27/17 8:17 AM 10/2/17 9:06 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/12/17 3:52 PM

STATE OF PRE-K SERIES: Access to Pre-K, 2017-2018

Center Name CEDAR LAKE CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN’S WORLD LEARNING ACADEMY LLC CHRISTIAN COLLEGIATE ACADEMY CREATIVE LEARNING CENTER DIVINE PRESCHOOL ACADEMY DOYLE MOFFETT HEAD START DR. GILBERT R. MASON SR. HEAD START EDNA’S CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER FIRST BAPTIST PRESCHOOL OF LONG BEACH GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN PRESCHOOL GRACE CHAPEL PRESCHOOL GULF COAST CENTER FOR NONVIOLENCE, INC. GULF COAST CHRISTIAN ACADEMY HARRY C. TARTT HEAD START CENTER ISIAH FREDERICKS HEAD START CENTER JABEZ EDUCATIONAL LEARNING CENTER JUDY’S DAY CARE JUST FOR KIDS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER KID ACADEMY KINDERCARE LEARNING CENTER LLC KINDERLEARN KINDERLEARN CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER LIGHTHOUSE LEARNING CENTER LIL’ TOTS ACADEMY LINDA C. LYONS HEAD START CENTER LITTLE ANGELS LEARNING LAND LITTLE PEOPLE’S CHRISTIAN ACADEMY - ROBINWOOD LITTLE SAINTS ACADEMY LITTLE TEEPEE - BILOXI HIGH SCHOOL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER LOVING CARE MONTESSORI MGCCC-JD EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION FACILITY MS. RUTHIE LITTLE LEARNING CENTER NOAH’S ARK CHILD CARE NUGENT UNITED METHODIST CDC OVATION LEARNING CENTER RAINBOW DAYCARE ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH PRESCOOL TENDER MOMENTS EARLY LEARNING CENTER THE MUSTARD SEED THREE RIVERS ACADEMY PRESCHOOL TINY STEPS ACADEMY

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County

Number of Four-Year-Olds

Inspection Date and Time

Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison

42 1 5 16 9 94 104 3 41 12 12 5 12 121 185 13 1 13 32 18 8 16 11 7 116 6 15 15

4/24/18 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/25/17 10:54 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/13/17 12:11 PM 10/27/17 11:00 AM 5/24/18 1:34 PM 12/5/17 9:16 AM 11/2/17 8:14 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/13/17 1:31 PM 11/2/17 2:59 PM 10/23/17 11:31 AM 10/23/17 2:03 PM 11/9/17 9:10 AM 12/28/17 5:44 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/25/17 11:18 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/23/17 10:50 AM 11/29/17 12:44 PM 10/27/17 9:17 AM 11/20/17 12:48 PM 1/26/18 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM

Harrison

17

10/24/17 10:33 AM

Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison

17 6 4 9 13 14 7 19 4 16 6 15

12/1/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/27/17 10:55 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/18/17 9:35 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/17/17 1:30 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM

STATE OF PRE-K SERIES: Access to Pre-K, 2017-2018

Center Name TODDLER TOWN TRINITY PRESCHOOL WEEKDAY MINISTRIES TWIN OAKS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER USM GULF COAST CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT WEE ONES CHILD CARE WOOLMARKET BAPTIST CHURCH PRESCHOOL A TIME 4 LEARNING CHILD CARE ABC KINDERGARTEN & PLAYSCHOOL INC AGAPE’ CHRISTIAN ACADEMY PHAZ II ALPHA KONNECTION ACADEMY BETH ISRAEL PRESCHOOL BETHLEHEM CENTER DAY CARE BLESSED BEGINNINGS @ LAKESHORE BOYD’S EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER BREATH OF LIFE MINISTRIES BYRAM LEARNING CENTER, INC. CARROT TOP DEVELOPMENT CTR. CENTER FOR FAMILY LIFE, INC.-DEV. LEARNING CTR. CHILDREN’S EDUCARE DAYCARE CHILDREN’S FIRST CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER CITY OF JACKSON WESTSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER CONNECTING BRIDGES CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER COVENANT PRESBYTARIAN CREATIVE KIDS OF CLINTON CREATIVE LEARNING CHILDCARE CENTER CREATIVE MINDS LEARNING CENTER # 1 DOMINICARE LEARNING CENTER DREAM KIDZ EARLY YEARS ACADEMY II EDWARDS HEAD START CENTER EMMANUEL CHILDCARE CENTER EULANDER P. KENDRICK HEAD START CENTER FAITH ACADEMY OF JACKSON, INC. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF BYRAM K/DAYCARE FIRST BAPTIST KINDERGARTEN FIRST STEP TO LEARNING DAY CARE FOUNDATION FIRST DEVELOPMENT CENTER FUNTIME PRESCHOOL OF CLINTON FREDDIE J. JACKSON CHILD CARE CENTER GALLOWAY CHILDREN’S CTR. GBTC CHILD CARE AND AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM

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County

Number of Four-Year-Olds

Inspection Date and Time

Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds

5 19 22 20 8 25 4 18 8 7 20 13 6 1 6 16 6 10 4 8

8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/10/17 10:42 AM 12/27/17 5:27 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/13/17 2:02 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/15/17 7:12 AM 11/28/17 1:49 PM 10/2/17 9:47 AM 11/15/17 11:57 AM 11/5/18 12:41 PM 8/29/17 10:30 AM 11/10/17 1:13 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/9/17 1:39 PM 11/1/17 8:03 AM 4/30/18 3:51 PM

Hinds

35

8/18/17 12:00 AM

Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds

5 8 14 7 6 19 6 1 26 16 21 15 13 29 6 8 17 5 32 9

8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/31/17 12:29 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/10/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/19/17 5:50 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/5/17 12:51 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/28/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM

STATE OF PRE-K SERIES: Access to Pre-K, 2017-2018

Center Name GERTRUDE E. ELLIS HEAD START CENTER GLOBAL CONNECTION LEARNING CENTER GOLDEN CHILD LEARNING CENTER GRACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL GREENWAY INFANT DEVELOPMENT CENTER HANGING MOSS PRESCHOOL HOLY GHOST LEARNING CENTER I SEE SUCCESS LEARNING CENTER JACOB’S LADDER CENTER FOR LEARNING JACOB’S LADDER CENTER FOR LEARNING II JAMBOREE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER JERRY’S LITTLE LAMBS LEARNING LAB JONES EARLY CHILDHOOD DEV. CTR. JPS CDC CHILD CARE PROGRAM KALEIDOSCOPE OF LEARNING KIDS’ COMPANY, INC. KIDS EXPRESS CHILD CARE 1 KIDS FIRST ACADEMY KIDS UNDER KONSTRUCTION KIDS’ UNIVERSITY KIDZ 1ST LEVEL LEARNING CENTER II, LLC KID’Z CHRISTIAN ACADEMY LABORATORY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF HCC LAMBS OF GOD LBFH CHILDCARE CENTER AND CHRISTIAN ACADEMY LIL ANGELS LITTLE ACORNS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER LITTLE AMBASSADORS DEVELOPMENTAL LEARNING CENTER LITTLE DREAMERS ACADEMY INC. LITTLE EINSTEINS LEARNING LAB LITTLE EXPLORERS LLC LITTLE ME LEARNING ACADEMY LITTLE SCHOLARS LEARNING CENTER, LLC LOTTIE THORNTON EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER MAGNOLIA DAY CARE MARTIN HEAD START CENTER MARY C. JONES HEAD START CENTER MID-TOWN HEAD START CENTER MORRISON HEIGHTS PRESCHOOL MOTHER GOOSE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL MOTHER GOOSE INC.

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County

Number of Four-Year-Olds

Inspection Date and Time

Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds

73 11 4 7 3 7 6 1 6 9 11 3 26 3 30 4 14 6 16 8 3 5 2 10 8 5 11

8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/3/17 12:45 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/6/17 5:00 PM 10/31/17 12:43 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/23/17 9:11 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/18/17 11:56 AM 9/14/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/18/17 1:46 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/11/17 11:23 AM 12/4/17 12:00 AM 10/3/17 7:47 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM

Hinds

10

8/18/17 12:00 AM

Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds

15 8 5 4 6 15 11 102 109 80 26 20 23

8/18/17 12:00 AM 7/23/18 1:50 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/3/17 10:28 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/2/17 3:09 PM

STATE OF PRE-K SERIES: Access to Pre-K, 2017-2018

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Center Name

County

Number of Four-Year-Olds

Inspection Date and Time

NEW HOPE CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL NEW HORIZON CHILD CARE NEW JERUSALEM CHRISTIAN SCHOOL - NORTH NEW JERUSALEM-FLOWER DRIVE NEW VINEYARD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER NEXT GENERATION ACADEMY NORTH JACKSON DAY CARE NORTHTOWN CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER OAK FOREST HEAD START OPEN HEARTS ACADEMY OUR KIDS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OXFORD PRE-SCHOOL PAT’S CHRISTIAN ACADEMY, INC PREP COMPANY TUTORIAL SCHOOL - NORTH PREP COMPANY TUTORIAL SCHOOL, INC. RICHARD BRANDON HEAD START CENTER RUMC EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER SERVING OUR CHILDREN & COMMUNITIES CHILD CARE FACILITY SHABACH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY SHERRY CHAPPELL’S PRE-SCHOOL SMART WONDERS C.D.C. SOUTH JACKSON HEAD START CENTER SR. THEA BOWMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL ST. LUKE EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING CENTER ST. PETER DAY CARE & CHRISTIAN LEARNING ST. THOMAS HEAD START CENTER STARTING POINT ACADEMY STRICTLY 4 KIDZ SUN RISE DEVELOPMENT CTR. 24 HOUR NURSERY & PRESCHOOL TENDER CARE PRESCHOOL THE DEVELOPMENT CENTER - THE PRESCHOOL EXPRESS THE LEARNING TREE DEVELOPMENT CENTER THE LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE THE MONTESSORI ACADEMY OF JACKSON THE POTTER’S HOUSE TOO THE PRIVETTE SCHOOL THE ST. JAMES’ SCHOOL TONS CREATIVE CENTER FOR LEARNING TONS OF FUN LEARNING CENTER TRIUMPH VILLAGE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY AND PRESCHOOL

Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds

48 13 19 15 3 16 7 14 70 6 14 2 1 9 10 100 10

8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/5/17 9:51 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/29/17 4:06 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/30/17 12:20 PM 9/19/17 2:48 PM 11/13/17 7:49 PM 8/24/17 4:08 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/9/17 2:43 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM

Hinds

1

8/18/17 12:00 AM

Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds

14 6 2 60 1 15 6 74 2 12

12/20/17 10:09 AM 9/13/17 8:58 AM 11/13/18 5:02 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/19/17 12:26 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM

Hinds

2

11/1/17 2:17 PM

Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds

2 21 5 4 2 16 2 10 6 6 7

8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/19/17 8:36 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/10/18 4:23 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/24/17 7:40 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/9/17 1:25 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM

STATE OF PRE-K SERIES: Access to Pre-K, 2017-2018

Center Name UNITY LEARNING CENTER WE CARE LEARNING CENTER WEE CARE OF BYRAM, INC. WELCOME HEAD START CENTER WESTSIDE DAYCARE WESTSIDE HEAD START WILDWOOD CHILD CARE CENTER WILLOW OAK CHILD CARE CENTER INC WILLOWOOD DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER WOOD-FOREST PRESCHOOL ACADEMY WYNNDALE WONDER PRESCHOOL YOUNG WORLD LEARNING CENTER CREATIVE KIDS CHILDCARE & LEARNING CENTER MILESTON COOP DAYCARE MONICA’S LEARNING CENTER TCHULA’S WEE CARE NURSERY WEE CARE NURSERY & LEARNING CENTER A CHILD’S PLACE DOMINIQUE’S ENRICHMENT CENTER FIRST IMPRESSIONS DAYCARE AND LEARNING CENTER LEAPS AND BOUNDS LEARNING ACADEMY LITTLE RASCALS’ LEARNING CENTER NOAH’S ARK CHRISTIAN CENTER RIVEN OAKS HEAD START WE CARE DAY CARE RIPLEY/BLACKWELL HEAD START CENTER FULTON HEADSTART GODZ KIDZ DAYSCHOOL HAPPY HEARTS DAY CARE ICC CHILD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM IN THE BEGINNINGS KID’S WORLD OF MANTACHIE LITTLE SPROUTS LEARNING CENTER NETTLETON FIRST BAPTIST WEEKDAY EARLY EDUCATION THE CHILDRENS PLACE HOME DAYCARE ABC CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF OCEAN SPRINGS ALL GOD’S CHILDREN LEARNING CENTER BIG POINT CHILDCARE BLOSSMAN YMCA PRESCHOOL CHILD CARE CENTER CHILDREN’S HOUSE MONTESSORI SCHOOL CHRISTUS VICTOR LUTHERAN CHURCH PRE-SCHOOL DREAM KIDS DAYCARE

County

Number of Four-Year-Olds

Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Holmes Holmes Holmes Holmes Holmes Humphreys Humphreys Humphreys Humphreys Humphreys Humphreys Humphreys Humphreys Issaquena Itawamba Itawamba Itawamba Itawamba Itawamba Itawamba Itawamba Itawamba Itawamba Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson

14 1 22 20 14 173 3 2 74 9 12 2 4 2 10 14 13 8 3 4 7 4 1 43 8 47 54 10 5 27 5 8 9 19 3 28 7 12 17 14 20 30

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Inspection Date and Time 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/25/17 3:48 PM 11/20/17 3:08 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/13/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/18/17 10:52 AM 7/6/18 6:03 PM 9/21/17 7:57 AM 10/13/17 1:27 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/19/17 1:36 PM 8/22/18 11:07 AM 12/14/17 1:33 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/19/17 7:31 PM 8/29/17 10:04 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/15/17 3:11 PM 10/25/17 11:26 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/1/17 8:29 AM 10/2/17 7:50 AM 12/5/17 3:15 PM 10/24/17 2:58 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/22/17 7:27 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/19/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/20/17 9:16 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM

STATE OF PRE-K SERIES: Access to Pre-K, 2017-2018

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Center Name

County

Number of Four-Year-Olds

Inspection Date and Time

EASTLAWN CHILD DEVELOPMENT MINISTRY FAITHFULLY YOURS LEARNING CENTER FIRST BAPTIST EARLY EDUCATION CENTER FIRST BAPTIST GAUTIER CHILD CARE FIRST BAPTIST VANCLEAVE PRESCHOOL FIRST STEP DAYCARE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHILDCARE AND PRESCHOOL FUTURE SCHOLARS Learning Center FUTURE SCHOLARS LEARNING CENTER #2 GAUTIER HEAD START CENTER GULF COAST TODDLERS IN THE ZONE CHILD CARE SERVICES INGALLS AVENUE WEEKDAY PRESCHOOL JACK AND JILL OF VANCLEAVE JACK AND JILL - MOSS POINT JEFFERSON STREET HEAD START CENTER LEARNING DEPOT CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER LIL’ INSPIRATIONS LITTLE FEET LEARNING CENTER, LLC LITTLE PEOPLE LEARNING CENTER MAGNOLIA BLOSSOMS MARY’S LITTLE LAMBS MGCCC EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CENTER - JACKSON COUNTY NEW BEGINNINGS LEARNING CENTER PASCAGOULA HEAD START CENTER S.M.A.R.T BEGINNINGS PRESCHOOL SONSHINE INN ST. JOHN’S PRESCHOOL AND KINDERGARTEN ST. PAUL’S UNITED METHODIST PRESCHOOL STEPPING STONES LEARNING CENTER T & B’S LEARNING FACTORY TACONI HEAD START TATTLE TALES LEARNING CENTER TEMPLE BAPTIST CHILD CARE CENTER VANCLEAVE HEAD START CENTER HAPPY HEARTS CHILDCARE & LEARNING CENTER L. N. PAYTON HEAD START CENTER SMART START ASU CHILD DEVELOPMENT LABORATORY CENTER FAYETTE HEAD START STEP BY STEP KINDER - KIDS ACADEMY

Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson

11 2 19 13 43 25 14 27 12 54 23 32 14 12 19 14 16 5 23 11 15 23

8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/8/17 10:19 AM 10/26/17 10:00 AM 10/4/17 9:30 AM 9/6/17 12:00 AM 8/15/17 12:00 AM 10/3/18 10:35 AM 10/11/17 12:01 PM 11/7/17 9:15 AM 10/25/17 10:51 AM 8/28/17 12:00 AM 9/27/17 9:13 AM 11/1/17 2:32 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/18/17 4:47 PM 10/18/17 2:30 PM

Jackson

2

8/18/17 12:00 AM

Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jasper Jasper Jasper Jefferson Jefferson Jefferson

3 66 4 12 11 43 16 28 54 7 21 37 3 56 2 3 83 5

8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/21/17 12:32 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/1/17 8:30 AM 9/12/17 12:53 PM 10/11/17 10:03 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/13/17 11:32 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/27/17 10:04 AM

STATE OF PRE-K SERIES: Access to Pre-K, 2017-2018

Center Name VICTORY KIDZ CENTER LIFE EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ANGIE’S CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER BRIGHT BEGINNINGS BULLDOG UNIVERSITY LEARNING CENTER, INC. CHILDREN’S ACADEMY FIRST TRINITY EARLY LEARNING CENTER HIGHLAND BAPTIST LEARNING CENTER JCJC EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION LAB SCHOOL KIDS’ KINGDOM LEARNING CENTER KING STAR HEAD START/EARLY HEAD START LITTLE NADERS LEARNING CENTER LOVING MOTHERS DAYCARE & PRESCHOOL MILLCREEK CHURCH OF GOD DAYCARE CENTER QUEEN OLIVE HEADSTART CENTER THE CHILDREN’S DEPOT, LLC THE KIDS COMPANY, LLC THE TEEPEE, LLC WEST JONES EARLY LEARNING CENTER SMALL WORLD DAYCARE DEKALB HEAD START CENTER ABC LEARNING CENTER CREATIVE LEARNING CENTER DISCOVERY DAY SCHOOL FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH WEEKDAY EDUCATION KID’S COLLEGE DAYCARE LEARNER’S PLAYHOUSE LITTLE ANGELS PRESCHOOL & DAYCARE CENTER MAGNOLIA MONTESSORI SCHOOL MARY CATHEY HEAD START MOTHER GOOSE OF OXFORD, INC. WILLIE PRICE LAB SCHOOL CLIFTON PRESTON, SR HEAD START CENTER CREATIVE KIDZ WESLEY CROSSPOINT PRE-K HERITAGE WEEKDAY PROGRAMS KID’S KAMPUS PURVIS MITCHELL KIDS’ KAMPUS PURVIS SUNSET DRIVE KIDS’ KAMPUS, SUMRALL LEARNING TREE PRESCHOOL, LLC LUMBERTON HEADSTART CENTER ROGERS CHILD CARE LEARNING CENTER & LEEP

County

Number of Four-Year-Olds

Jefferson Jefferson Davis Jones Jones Jones Jones Jones Jones Jones Jones Jones Jones Jones Jones Jones Jones Jones Jones Jones Kemper Kemper Lafayette Lafayette Lafayette Lafayette Lafayette Lafayette Lafayette Lafayette Lafayette Lafayette Lafayette Lamar Lamar Lamar Lamar Lamar Lamar Lamar Lamar Lamar Lamar

3 4 2 24 13 16 8 24 8 25 96 2 12 16 146 18 14 16 3 2 32 10 20 29 20 7 32 16 6 92 20 33 20 11 16 39 11 13 16 14 17 2

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Inspection Date and Time 12/7/17 12:38 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/20/17 1:41 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/2/17 12:27 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/9/17 10:30 AM 12/28/17 9:49 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/26/17 5:10 AM 11/28/17 8:41 AM 11/28/17 9:35 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/23/17 7:55 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/8/17 3:41 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/24/17 10:01 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/22/17 11:39 AM 3/1/18 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/14/17 3:22 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/11/17 1:58 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/6/17 12:26 PM 1/4/18 10:31 AM 11/1/17 9:48 AM 12/20/18 5:02 PM 9/5/17 9:33 AM 12/19/17 9:54 AM 12/19/17 9:57 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/1/17 1:41 PM 10/3/17 9:29 AM 11/1/17 10:38 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM

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Center Name SKIPPY’S LEARNING CENTER TEMPLE’S LEARNING DEPOT CENTRAL’S CHILDREN’S CENTER CHARLES L. YOUNG, SR. CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER (HEAD START) CHILDREN FIRST CREATIVE KIDS DAYCARE DADDY’S HANDS DAYCARE DREAMS COME TRUE CHILDCARE CENTER, LLC EXCELLENCE DAY CARE CENTER GREAT START LEARNING CENTER HIGHLAND BAPTIST CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER KIDZ WORLD LEARNING ACADEMY, INC KINDERCARE LEARNING CENTER LORD TEDDY BEAR DAY CARE #2 MERIDIAN CENTER (HEAD START) NEW DESTINY DAYCARE NINO AFTERSCHOOL NINO CREATIVE LEARNING CHILDCARE CENTER NORTHCREST BAPTIST PRESCHOOL NORTHEAST CHILD CARE CENTER ROSS COLLINS CHILD CARE SMITH’S LEARNING CENTER SOUTHSIDE EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY CENTER TOOMSUBA HEAD START CENTER UNITED METHODIST DAY SCHOOL WESLEY HOUSE PRESCHOOL HEAVEN’S LITTLE SAINTS BRIGHT BEGINNINGS EDUCATIONAL CENTER BUBBLING BABBIES FIRST BAPTIST KINDERGARTEN AND DAY CARE GINGERBREAD DAYCARE/LEARNING CENTER LIGHTHOUSE LEARNING CENTER OF CARTHAGE RED WATER EARLY CHILDHOOD HEADSTART STANDING PINE CHILD CARE CENTER THE GROWING PATCH WINSON AND DOVIE HUDSON HEAD START CENTER A RAINBOW OF LOVE & CHILDCARE LEARNING CENTER ALL GOD’S CHILDREN CHILD CARE AND PRESCHOOL BOWS & BOW TIES CHILDCARE AND LEARNING CENTER BROWN BEAR CHILD CARE AND LEARNING CENTER CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH CASA

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County

Number of Four-Year-Olds

Inspection Date and Time

Lamar Lamar Lauderdale

1 48 19

12/5/17 9:14 PM 10/18/17 2:07 PM 10/4/17 1:18 PM

Lauderdale

109

8/18/17 12:00 AM

Lauderdale Lauderdale Lauderdale Lauderdale Lauderdale Lauderdale Lauderdale Lauderdale Lauderdale Lauderdale Lauderdale Lauderdale Lauderdale Lauderdale Lauderdale Lauderdale Lauderdale Lauderdale Lauderdale Lauderdale Lauderdale Lauderdale Lawrence Leake Leake Leake Leake Leake Leake Leake Leake Leake Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee

17 5 19 10 4 14 39 5 8 2 40 14 25 7 32 5 11 13 1 40 16 16 15 8 10 23 12 18 5 7 4 80 5 21 3 4 12

10/19/17 3:12 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/20/17 7:55 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/24/17 11:57 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/5/17 8:19 AM 12/20/17 2:47 PM 10/16/17 12:48 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/30/17 10:51 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/30/17 9:31 AM 10/24/17 9:39 AM 11/1/17 8:40 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 3/30/18 1:57 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/2/17 10:59 AM 10/3/17 1:48 PM 10/17/17 12:59 PM 11/20/17 2:43 PM 9/29/17 10:34 AM 8/31/17 9:37 AM 10/24/17 12:29 PM 10/23/17 9:34 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/19/17 11:00 AM

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Center Name

County

Number of Four-Year-Olds

Inspection Date and Time

CALVARY BAPTIST KINDERGARTEN & PRESCHOOL CHANGING LIVES DAY CARE COLOR MY WORLD CHILD CARE ACADEMY INC DAVID’S ARMY LEARNING CENTER EAST HEIGHTS CHILD NURSERY FAYE’S PLAYHOUSE & LEARNING CENTER FIRST BAPTIST DAY SCHOOL AND KINDERGARTEN FIRST UMC KID’S PAD FOR LITTLE PEOPLE ONLY DAYCARE GENESIS CHILDCARE & LEARNING CENTER GIGGLES ‘N’ GRINS PRESCHOOL AND EARLY EDUCATION CENTER GOD’S CREATION LEARNING CENTER HAPPY FEET DAYCARE & LEARNING CENTER HARRISBURG DAY SCHOOL HAVEN ACRES IN HIS HANDS CHILDCARE & LEARNING CENTER ITAWAMBA COMMUNITY COLLEGE EARLY LEARNING CENTER IT’S A SMALL WORLD JOURNEY KIDS LEARNING CENTER KIDDIE KASTLE PRESCHOOL, INC KID’S LANDING CHILD CARE & LEARNING CENTER KIDS LANDING TOO KIDS’ WORLD TUPELO KINGDOM KIDS LEARNING CENTER, LLC LIL LEAP ACADEMY, INC LITTLE ANGELS LEARNING AND CHILD CARE CENTER #3 LITTLE EAGLES PLAYHOUSE MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF TUPELO MOOREVILLE CHRISTIAN CHILDCARE AND LEARNING CENTER MY CASA DE MONTESSORI NALA CHILD CARE NOAH’S ARK DAYCARE & LEARNING NORTH MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CTR. CHILD CARE NORTHSIDE HEAD START PATHWAY MONTESSORI SCHOOL PRECIOUS HANDS DAYCARE AND LEARNING CENTER PRECIOUS LITTLE PEOPLE DAY CARE & LEARNING CENTER ST. LUKE SMALL MIRACLES PRESCHOOL AND MOTHER’S DAY OUT

Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee

34 11 15 2 6 19 19 24 3 12

10/3/17 11:00 AM 9/27/17 3:18 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/19/17 10:10 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/16/17 9:22 AM 9/13/17 3:38 PM 10/12/17 4:00 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM

Lee

3

9/29/17 12:04 PM

Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee

5 3 32 34 6

8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/19/17 1:18 PM 10/20/17 9:16 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/19/17 2:50 PM

Lee

14

10/5/17 1:27 PM

Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee

8 18 7 12 14 17 8 3 15 13 7

8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/28/17 10:38 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/30/17 4:01 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/18/17 9:11 AM

Lee

5

8/29/17 4:18 PM

Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee

4 9 15 13 22 3 6 2

12/18/17 5:00 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/14/17 2:31 PM 10/17/17 9:36 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/16/17 11:36 AM 8/17/18 8:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM

Lee

12

8/18/17 12:00 AM

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Center Name

County

Number of Four-Year-Olds

Inspection Date and Time

STEPPING STONES TENDER CARE LEARNING CENTER WISHING WELL LEARNING CENTER ABC LEARNING CENTER #2 AGAPE LOVE LEARNING & DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER BRIGHT BEGINNINGS DAYCARE BRIGHT BEGINNINGS DAYCARE II CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY FIRST PRESBYTERIAN KINDERGARTEN GILLIAM HEAD START CENTER GOD’S HELPING HANDS LEARNING ACADEMY GWEN’S KINDERGARTEN & DAY CARE, INC. HPCOC CHILD DEVELOPMENT DAY CARE CENTER #2 LEARNING TREE, INC. MVSU DEVELOPMENT CENTER PRECIOUS MOMENTS LEARNING DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY RAINBOW KIDS DAYCARE SCHOOL OF CHAMPIONS DEVELOPMENT & LEARNING ACADEMY LLC ST. JOHN’S PRESCHOOL & WDM CINDY’S DAY CARE DRIBBLE DRABBLE CHILD CARE CENTER EASTHAVEN CHRISTIAN CHILDCARE/KINDERGARTEN FAITH PRESBYTERIAN KINDERGARTEN FIRST UNITED METHODIST KINDERGARTEN IMAGINATION STATION LEARNING CENTER KIDS “R” US LEARNING CENTER LINDSEY HEAD START CENTER NEW ZION HEAD START CENTER THOMPSON LEARNING CENTER WEE CARE AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH ABUNDANTLY JOYFUL CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER AGAPE CHILD CARE & LEARNING CENTER BRIGHT BEGINNINGS DAYCARE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY FOR CHILDREN COLEMAN HEAD START CENTER COLUMBUS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL, INC. FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHILD CARE FIRST BAPTIST W.E.E. SCHOOL FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHILD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FIRST STEPS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER

Lee Lee Lee Leflore Leflore Leflore Leflore Leflore Leflore Leflore Leflore Leflore Leflore Leflore Leflore Leflore Leflore

12 15 5 29 11 8 2 9 6 176 4 8 4 2 12 5 7

10/27/17 8:54 AM 11/14/17 11:08 AM 10/1/18 4:00 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/21/17 4:35 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/4/17 3:29 PM 10/27/17 11:43 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/1/17 11:04 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/10/18 11:23 AM

Leflore

6

12/17/18 7:40 PM

Leflore Lincoln Lincoln Lincoln Lincoln Lincoln Lincoln Lincoln Lincoln Lincoln Lincoln Lincoln Lowndes Lowndes Lowndes Lowndes Lowndes Lowndes Lowndes Lowndes Lowndes Lowndes

8 5 9 24 22 18 2 22 67 48 13 25 1 6 11 6 157 18 6 5 9 2

11/13/17 10:56 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/22/17 8:52 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/27/17 3:33 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/1/17 2:10 PM 11/1/17 10:54 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/16/17 11:25 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/15/17 12:04 PM 10/31/17 11:51 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/27/17 11:02 AM

STATE OF PRE-K SERIES: Access to Pre-K, 2017-2018

Center Name FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH EARLY LEARNING CENTER GHOLARS CHILD CARE FACILITY HAPPY START LEARNING CENTER #3 LISA’S CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER LOVE AND LEARN DAY CARE MAIN STREET CHRISTIAN SCHOOL MUW CHILD AND PARENT DEVELOPMENT CENTER OPEN ARMS CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER PETTY’S CHRISTIAN CHILDCARE INC PRIDE & JOY LEARNING CENTER RENEE’S LEARNING CENTER S & L CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER SAL’S CHILD CARE & LEARNING CENTER #2 ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL TENDER LOVING CARE CREATIVE LEARNING CTR. THIRD AVENUE KIDDIE KORNER TUCKER’S PLAY AND LEARN A.B. DEVINE, C.O. CHINN, W.E. GARRETT HS/EHS CENTER AGAPE EDUCATIONAL CENTER ASSISI EARLY LEARNING CENTER BELL’S EDUCARE PRESCHOOL BUILDING BLOCKS DAYCARE & LEARNING CENTER, INC. CREATIVE ARTS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY, INC. DR. MARVIN HOGAN HEAD START/EARLY HEAD START CENTER EAGLE’S NEST EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING CTR FIRST RIDGELAND WEEKDAY MINISTRY HELEN’S CHILD CARE, INC JOHNSON’S NURSERY SCHOOL/DAYCARE KIDS@FIRST LEARNING CENTER LITTLE DREAMERS CHILD CARE CENTER LITTLE FOOTPRINTS LEARNING CENTER, INC. LITTLE SCHOOL LEARNING CENTER MADISON OAK PRESCHOOL MADISON PRESCHOOL MOTHER TERESA’S DAYCARE AND LEARNING CENTER NORTH PARK LEARNING CENTER OVER THE RAINBOW CHILDCARE CENTER RIDGECREST PRESCHOOL ST. MATTHEW’S WEEKDAY MINISTRY THE CHILDRENS ACADEMY OF MADISON

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County

Number of Four-Year-Olds

Inspection Date and Time

Lowndes

10

8/18/17 12:00 AM

Lowndes Lowndes Lowndes Lowndes Lowndes Lowndes Lowndes Lowndes Lowndes Lowndes Lowndes Lowndes Lowndes Lowndes Lowndes Lowndes Madison Madison Madison Madison Madison Madison

4 7 4 3 9 16 6 5 1 5 12 10 9 10 6 10 180 20 28 15 11 7

10/23/17 8:53 AM 1/8/18 10:51 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/29/17 6:31 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 5/22/18 8:29 AM 10/16/17 8:39 AM 6/26/18 8:02 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/19/17 10:22 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/20/17 12:37 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 3/8/18 12:00 AM 12/20/17 4:16 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM

Madison

32

10/24/17 9:57 AM

Madison Madison Madison Madison Madison Madison Madison Madison Madison Madison Madison Madison Madison Madison Madison Madison

8 33 2 1 29 4 47 11 6 34 2 32 9 10 15 25

8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/27/17 10:51 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/2/17 11:17 AM 10/24/17 12:00 AM 11/24/17 1:06 PM 10/29/18 11:45 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/21/17 4:15 PM 11/9/17 11:39 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM

STATE OF PRE-K SERIES: Access to Pre-K, 2017-2018

Center Name THE KIDS’ WORLD CENTER WEE CARE CHILD CARE COLUMBIA PRESBYTERIAN PRESCHOOL FIRST BAPTIST DAY CARE HUB HEAD START CENTER KURIOUS LITTLE HANDS LITTLE FOXWORTH’S PRESCHOOL LITTLE PEOPLE’S CREATIVE LEARNING MY LUV CHILDCARE II MY LUV CHILDCARE CENTER NEW HOPE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL TENDER LOVING CARE ERMA ROGERS HEAD START CENTER KID’S WORLD DAYCARE MARJEAN TAYLOR-MYATT HEAD START CENTER OPULENT LIFE KIDZ KARE CALVERT’S ABC PRE-SCHOOL & NURSERY FIRST UNITED METHODIST EARLY LEARNING CTR. FRENCH’S LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT CENTER 2 L AND J NURSERY INC LIL’ BLESSING CHILD CARE LITTLE ANGELS CHILD CARE MS P’S, INC. NEW LIFE TABERNACLE DAYCARE & PRESCHOOL R J NURSERY UPTOWN KIDS CHILDCARE & LEARNING CENTER WEE CARE XTREME KIDS EARLY LEARNING CENTER FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH HAPPY TIMES CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER LITTLE WORLD BOGUE CHITTO EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER BRIGHT BEGINNINGS EXHIBIT HALL HEAD START CENTER FIRST BAPTIST CHILD MINISTRY FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH DAY CARE HAPPY HIPPOS EARLY LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT HELEN’S CHILD CARE KINDERDOMES DAYCARE LITTLE LEARNERS PRESCHOOL PEARL RIVER DAY CARE PEARL RIVER HEADSTART CENTER

County

Number of Four-Year-Olds

Madison Madison Marion Marion Marion Marion Marion Marion Marion Marion Marion Marion Marshall Marshall Marshall Marshall Monroe Monroe Monroe Monroe Monroe Monroe Monroe Monroe Monroe Monroe Monroe Monroe Montgomery Montgomery Montgomery Neshoba Neshoba Neshoba Neshoba Neshoba Neshoba Neshoba Neshoba Neshoba Neshoba Neshoba

6 29 16 27 72 2 12 3 6 5 5 4 108 30 101 2 36 14 9 5 13 10 6 2 3 16 11 5 6 5 3 8 4 84 12 15 5 3 5 7 4 54

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Inspection Date and Time 8/18/17 12:00 AM 2/20/18 3:52 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/1/17 10:21 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/28/18 1:51 PM 12/20/17 1:54 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/27/18 12:12 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/13/17 10:17 AM 12/21/17 11:41 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 2/5/18 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/28/17 11:20 AM 11/14/17 1:14 PM 10/19/17 12:00 AM 11/27/17 10:54 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/4/17 1:40 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/11/17 4:51 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/7/17 11:43 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/28/17 9:00 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/24/17 8:44 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/3/17 12:39 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM

STATE OF PRE-K SERIES: Access to Pre-K, 2017-2018

Center Name STEPPING STONES LEARNING CENTER TUCKER EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER ANGELA’S KIDS WORLD LLC CONEHATTA EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER CROSSROADS HEAD START M&M PRESCHOOL MRS. NIKKI’S LITTLE ANGELS NEWTON COUNTY VOCATIONAL CHILD CARE TINKA-TONKA’S FAMILY CHILD-DAYCARE TOADS AND TUTUS EARLY LEARNING CENTER UNION UNITED METHODIST CHURCH PRESCHOOL HAPPY START LEARNING CENTER NOXUBEE COUNTY HEAD START CENTER OTHER MOTHER CHILD CARE PEACE OF HEAVEN CHILD CARE CENTER TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL CCC A BRIGHT START LEARNING CENTER EMERSON FAMILY SCHOOL BRICKFIRE PROJECT DAY CARE # 1 CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND FAMILY STUDIES CTR. CREATIVE LEARNING CENTER DEW-BEARRY’S DAY CARE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF LONGVIEW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CTR. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CHILD CARE, INC. MIGHTY OAKS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER OKTIBBEHA COUNTY HEAD START CENTER PERKINS LIL TREASURES SMILES LEARNING CENTER STARKVILLE FUMC WEEKDAY MINISTRIES TRIBES LITTLE TREASURES FIRST UMC CHILDREN’S CENTER BATESVILLE HEAD START CENTER CRENSHAW HEAD START CENTER DEWBERRY KINDERGARTEN AND DAY CARE FAITH TEMPLE CHURCH DAYCARE GOD’S GIFT CHILDREN CENTER HOSKIN’S LEARNING CENTER JESUS LOVES ME CHILDREN’S CENTER JUST US KIDS CHILDCARE LEARNING CENTER MAGNOLIA KINDERGARTEN NEW BEGINNING DAYCARE CENTER

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County

Number of Four-Year-Olds

Inspection Date and Time

Neshoba Neshoba Newton Newton Newton Newton Newton Newton Newton Newton Newton Noxubee Noxubee Noxubee Noxubee Noxubee Oktibbeha Oktibbeha Oktibbeha Oktibbeha Oktibbeha Oktibbeha

2 11 13 11 80 6 6 20 1 8 13 25 74 3 2 7 5 40 8 11 25 2

8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 5/23/18 1:13 PM 11/1/17 11:44 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 6/4/18 10:09 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/18/18 9:02 AM 11/15/17 2:02 PM 11/8/17 12:40 PM 10/28/17 10:57 AM 9/28/17 2:18 PM 8/31/17 11:26 AM 8/31/17 11:53 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/3/17 3:50 PM 9/19/17 10:05 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/11/17 3:11 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/22/17 1:46 PM

Oktibbeha

3

10/25/17 9:33 AM

Oktibbeha Oktibbeha Oktibbeha Oktibbeha Oktibbeha Oktibbeha Oktibbeha Panola Panola Panola Panola Panola Panola Panola Panola Panola Panola Panola

20 11 146 1 4 24 8 8 135 61 8 3 3 8 16 4 5 15

8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/28/17 1:29 PM 9/5/17 9:57 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/24/17 3:18 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/17/17 10:11 AM 9/20/17 10:26 AM 9/18/17 10:36 AM 10/11/17 8:10 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/4/17 1:56 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/26/17 9:27 AM

STATE OF PRE-K SERIES: Access to Pre-K, 2017-2018

Center Name STRAYHORN PRESCHOOL AND DAYCARE LLC ANNIE’S KINDERGARTEN AND DAY CARE CHILD DEVELOPMENT LAB SCHOOL FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH WEEKDAY EARLY EDUCATION FIRST BAPTIST PLAYSCHOOL HANCOCK COUNTY STARS - WEST KIDS’ KAMPUS POPLARVILLE KIDS KINGDOM KREATIVE KINGDOM CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER LEANNE’S LEARNING CENTER MCCARTY LEARNING CENTER PICAYUNE HEAD START COMPLEX POPLARVILLE HEAD START THE PLAID APPLE PRESCHOOL UNION BAPTIST KINDERGARTEN WEE WISDOM LEARNING CENTER RICHTON HEAD START CENTER RICHTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH PRESCHOOL BLESSED BEGINNERS BRIGHT MINDS LEARNING CENTER CHRISTIAN’S COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER CRAYON COLLEGE CREATIVE KIDS ACADEMY ISABELL’S FRIENDS LITTLE LAMB DAY CARE & LEARNING CENTER LITTLE LAMBS II MAGNOLIA HEAD START CENTER MCCOMB LEARNING CENTER III MISSISSIPPI KIDS EDUCATION ACADEMY MOTHER GOOSE CHRISTIAN CCC, LLC MPACT LLC PREPARATORY LEARNING ACADEMY SAFARI LEARNING CENTER SANKOFA ACADEMY SOUTH MCCOMB BAPTIST KINDERGARTEN TOTS AND TODDLERS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER VISION’S CHRISTIAN ACADEMY WEE CARE ACADEMY WEEKDAY EARLY EDUCATION CENTER WESTBROOK HEAD START CENTER YALE HEAD START CENTER CIRCLE OF FRIENDS DAYCARE AND PRESCHOOL #2

County

Number of Four-Year-Olds

Panola Pearl River Pearl River Pearl River Pearl River Pearl River Pearl River Pearl River Pearl River Pearl River Pearl River Pearl River Pearl River Pearl River Pearl River Pearl River Perry Perry Pike Pike Pike Pike Pike Pike Pike Pike Pike Pike Pike Pike Pike Pike Pike Pike Pike Pike Pike Pike Pike Pike Pike Pontotoc

13 5 8 45 32 10 6 14 14 18 8 78 30 7 21 21 22 15 6 7 8 6 2 8 10 2 27 16 18 7 2 2 10 4 20 15 4 4 15 59 38 25

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Inspection Date and Time 10/11/17 4:31 PM 9/5/17 8:42 AM 12/27/17 9:38 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/11/17 12:54 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/19/17 3:34 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/14/17 12:41 PM 12/6/17 2:55 PM 7/24/18 11:43 AM 11/8/17 1:34 PM 9/8/17 11:06 AM 9/28/17 12:10 PM 9/30/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/3/17 11:42 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 4/19/18 3:04 PM 4/3/18 10:18 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/2/17 8:45 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 6/19/18 4:02 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/26/17 7:53 AM 9/7/17 3:49 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/20/17 9:02 AM 11/27/17 9:27 AM 11/2/17 10:47 AM 8/31/17 2:30 PM

STATE OF PRE-K SERIES: Access to Pre-K, 2017-2018

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Center Name

County

Number of Four-Year-Olds

Inspection Date and Time

JUST KIDS KID’S FIRST LEARNING CENTER LITTLE BITS DAYCARE PLAYMATES DAYCARE/LEARNING CENTER PONTOTOC HEAD START THE LEARNING TREE CHILDREN’S ACADEMY BOONEVILLE HEAD START FIRST METHODIST PRESCHOOL LAUGH & LEARN PRESCHOOL AND DAYCARE LITTLE EAGLES 2 WEES & TOTS, INC LITTLE FOLKS PRESCHOOL MARIETTA DAY CARE MARY’S LITTLE LAMBS NORTHEAST MISS COM COLLEGE CHILD CARE CTR THE HONEY TREE PRESCHOOL THE VINEYARD PRESCHOOL WHEELER HEAD START CENTER QUITMAN COUNTY HEAD START THE GOLDEN CONNECTION A STEP ABOVE LEARNING CENTER, LLC AFTER SCHOOL CARE, INC. BOBBIE’S LITTLE LAMBS CHRISTIAN CENTER BRANDON FIRST BAPTIST CHILDREN’S CENTER BRANDON FIRST UMC KINDERGARTEN BRIGHT MINDS LEARNING CENTER CHERUBS DAY CARE & KINDERGARTEN INC CHILDRENS WORKSHOP, INC. CIRCLE OF FRIENDS LEARNING CENTER CIRCLE OF FRIENDS LEARNING CENTER II CLAUDIA’S CHILD CARE CENTER, INC. CREATIVE EXPRESSION LEARNING CENTER CROSSGATES BAPTIST KINDERGARTEN CROSSGATES METHODIST CHILDREN’S CENTER EXPLORER’S, INC. GOLDEN RULE DAY CARE GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN SCHOOL HINDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION HOPE LEARNING CENTER J J’S DEVELOPMENT CENTER KIDDIE CORRAL CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER KIDS KONNECTION CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER

Pontotoc Pontotoc Pontotoc Pontotoc Pontotoc Pontotoc Prentiss Prentiss Prentiss Prentiss Prentiss Prentiss Prentiss Prentiss Prentiss Prentiss Prentiss Quitman Quitman Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin

30 12 14 16 32 18 48 27 6 14 1 6 5 5 15 7 40 46 1 5 15 6 34 53 16 9 16 11 15 15 3 36 32 32 12 10

10/23/17 1:40 PM 10/12/17 9:15 AM 12/27/17 8:53 AM 9/27/17 11:09 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/17/17 8:55 AM 10/18/17 9:46 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/14/17 2:01 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/17/17 9:50 AM 10/9/17 10:54 AM 12/15/17 6:23 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/6/17 11:12 AM 12/26/17 5:55 PM 4/26/18 6:33 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/25/17 9:49 AM 11/15/17 3:05 PM 10/19/17 1:11 PM 11/27/17 9:30 AM 8/28/17 9:50 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/28/17 9:19 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/2/17 10:17 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM

Rankin

11

8/18/17 12:00 AM

Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin

16 9 15 28

10/3/17 3:15 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/9/17 10:12 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM

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Center Name

County

Number of Four-Year-Olds

Inspection Date and Time

KIDS STOP PRESCHOOL KINGDOM PRESCHOOL K’S KIDS LEARNING CENTER INC LAKE VILLAGE LEARNING CENTER #2 LAKESIDE PRESBYTERIAN PRESCHOOL LEAPING LIZARDS LEARNING CENTER LIL CAM CAM’S LEARNING CENTER MCCALL HEAD START CENTER MISS MANDY’S CHRISTIAN DAY CARE MS. NAOMI’S STAY & PLAY LEARNING CENTER NEW HOPE HEAD START CENTER RAILROAD CENTER DAYCARE RAINBOW CHILDCARE CENTER RAY OF SUNSHINE LEARNING CENTER, INC. SILVER SPOON AT CASTLEWOODS SILVER SPOON, INC. ST. JAMES HEAD START CENTER ST. MARK’S UMC PRESCHOOL ST. PAUL LEARNING CENTER STEPPING STONE CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER, LLC SUNSHINE LEARNING CENTER TIKES 2 TOTS FAMILY CHILDCARE TIME TO LEARN PRESCHOOL/AFTER SCHOOL & SUMMER CAMP EXPLORERS, INC. FOREST FOREST COMMUNITY CENTER HEAD START HOPE’S PLAYHOUSE KIDDIE KOLLEGE, LLC. LITTLE RED APPLE MIDWAY HEAD-START CENTER THE GINGERBREAD KIDZ PERFECT BEGINNINGS CHILDCARE AND LEARNING CENTER ABC/PATTI-CAKE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH CHILD CARE FIRST BAPTISTWEEKDAY EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM MAGEE HEAD START CENTER MRS. SHEILA’S CLUBHOUSE NAZARETH DAY CARE CENTER PRAYING HANDZ INC SHINING STAR CHILD CARE FIRST BAPTIST PRESCHOOL FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH KINDERGARTEN

Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin Rankin

5 3 7 20 35 9 4 46 26 5 33 42 8 13 7 13 55 16 18 12 28 9

9/21/18 11:15 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/29/17 3:50 PM 3/16/18 12:00 AM 10/2/17 9:34 AM 9/13/17 2:43 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/13/17 10:14 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/28/17 10:44 AM 10/30/17 1:59 PM 9/26/17 9:03 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/25/17 3:14 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM

Rankin

12

8/18/17 12:00 AM

Scott Scott Scott Scott Scott Scott Scott Sharkey Simpson Simpson Simpson Simpson Simpson Simpson Simpson Simpson Smith Smith

16 130 6 28 10 34 9 2 10 13 3 30 12 13 2 8 17 25

12/17/18 12:54 PM 10/11/17 2:41 PM 10/5/17 9:13 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/4/17 3:45 PM 10/19/17 3:07 PM 6/29/18 9:12 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 4/10/18 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/1/18 1:04 PM 9/14/17 2:17 PM 10/4/17 10:43 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM

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Center Name

County

Number of Four-Year-Olds

Inspection Date and Time

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH WEEKDAY EDUCATION THE CHILD CARE CENTER INC LIBERTY PRESCHOOL ACADEMY LITTLE ANGELS DAY CARE CENTER STONE COUNTY HEAD START BE BE KIDS LEARNING CENTER COLOR ME A RAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENTAL CTR FUMC DAY SCHOOL AND KINDERGARTEN HUTCHINS YOUNGLAND DAYCARE CENTER INDIANOLA KIDS UNIVERSITY, INC. LITTLE ANGELS DAY CARE MS. DUPREE’S BUSY BEE LEARNING POOH BEAR DAYCARE #2 SAVE THE CHILDREN EARLY HEAD START/HEAD START MOORHEAD SAVE THE CHILDREN HEAD START - RULEVILLE SAVE THE CHILDREN HEAD START - CASSIE PENN SAVE THE CHILDREN HEADSTART - DREW ELOHIM CHILDCARE & LEARNING CENTER EVA COVINGTON HEADSTART CENTER JERUSALEM OUTREACH CHILD & ADULT LEARNING CENTER PIPPIS LITTLE PEOPLE DAYCARE AND PRESCHOOL LLC WEST TALLAHATCHIE HEAD START CENTER CLEN MOORE HEAD START CENTER FIRST BAPTIST PRESCHOOL NWMCC CHILD ENRICHMENT CENTER PEEK-A-BOO PLAYSCHOOL STEPPING STONES PRESCHOOL TATTLE TALES, LLC FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH PRESCHOOL MOTHER GOOSE DAY CARE CHALYBEATE HEADSTART NOAH’S ARK PRATHER HEAD START RAINBOW KIDS PRESCHOOL BELMONT HEADSTART BURNSVILLE HEADSTART FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH PRESCHOOL FIRST FRIENDS FOREVER FRIENDS IUKA HEAD START JUST KIDS II

Stone Stone Stone Stone Stone Sunflower Sunflower Sunflower Sunflower Sunflower Sunflower Sunflower Sunflower

62 10 13 7 54 3 2 14 3 6 2 5 2

11/7/17 9:02 AM 9/12/17 10:06 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/27/17 2:18 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/13/17 2:43 PM 10/27/17 4:09 PM 6/18/18 4:51 PM

Sunflower

7

8/18/17 12:00 AM

Sunflower Sunflower Sunflower Tallahatchie Tallahatchie Tallahatchie Tallahatchie Tallahatchie Tate Tate Tate Tate Tate Tate Tippah Tippah Tippah Tippah Tippah Tippah Tishomingo Tishomingo Tishomingo Tishomingo Tishomingo Tishomingo Tishomingo

21 89 22 4 32 5 3 29 107 34 5 8 7 11 14 7 43 12 47 7 29 18 14 7 22 40 20

8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/15/17 3:12 PM 12/27/17 12:22 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/13/17 9:21 AM 10/5/17 3:22 PM 8/8/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/1/17 12:00 AM 9/15/17 10:27 AM 12/7/17 11:13 AM 2/1/18 12:00 AM 5/3/18 9:20 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/13/17 12:48 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/13/17 10:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM

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Center Name KIDS IN MOTION DAYCARE & LEARNING CENTER BRIGHT START LEARNING ACADEMY CRIBS TO CRAYONS DAYCARE CENTER PLAYSKOOL LEARNING CENTER TUNICA COUNTY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER TUNICA COUNTY HEAD START CENTER LITTLE ANCHORS DAYCARE RAINBOW LEARNING CENTER UAC KIDDIE ACADEMY UNION COUNTY HEAD START VICTORY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY DAY CARE LEAR PRESCHOOL AND DAYCARE LITTLE CHILDREN CHRISTIAN DAY/NIGHT CARE HARVEY’S ACADEMY OF CARE HARVEY’S ACADEMY TOO! LEXIE HEAD START CENTER ST. PAUL HEAD START CENTER ALL MY CHILDREN BINAH ACADEMY BLESSINGS LEARNING CENTER CEDARS HEAD START CHILDREN LEARNING CENTER OF VICKSBURG, LLC CHILDRENS EDUCATION STATION DAYCARE & LEARNING CENTER COLONIAL DAY SCHOOL - SMALL WORLD CRAWFORD ST. PLAY SCHOOL CROSS POINT DAYCARE CUTLER’S GROW-N-LEARN GOOD SHEPHERD PRESCHOOL H & H KIDZ ZONE HAWKINS UMC PRESCHOOL KIDDIE CITY CHILD CARE/LEARNING CENTER KIDDIE KOLLEGE KID’S COTTAGE KIDS PRESCHOOL 1 KIDS PRESCHOOL 2 KING’S HEAD START CENTER KJ’S ACADEMY, INC LIL’ WONDERS DAY CARE LITTLE PEOPLE LEARNING CENTER LLC PIED PIPER PRESCHOOL PRECIOUS MOMENTS LEARNING CENTER

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County

Number of Four-Year-Olds

Inspection Date and Time

Tishomingo Tunica Tunica Tunica Tunica Tunica Union Union Union Union Union Walthall Walthall Walthall Walthall Walthall Walthall Warren Warren Warren Warren Warren

9 1 2 7 1 65 7 14 28 76 15 12 7 5 14 32 21 6 13 5 53 12

10/1/17 4:28 PM 10/13/17 10:13 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/11/17 3:50 PM 11/28/17 8:54 AM 11/2/17 10:19 AM 12/14/17 4:09 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/11/17 4:02 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/24/17 2:19 PM 5/30/18 10:10 AM 9/7/17 8:16 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/2/17 1:56 PM 11/2/17 2:37 PM 9/27/18 12:37 PM 12/5/18 5:22 PM 12/19/17 10:06 AM 12/12/17 8:30 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM

Warren

3

2/1/18 6:03 PM

Warren Warren Warren Warren Warren Warren Warren Warren Warren Warren Warren Warren Warren Warren Warren Warren Warren Warren

4 11 1 4 12 11 11 6 3 1 7 10 75 1 4 9 2 16

8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/13/17 2:49 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/6/17 9:24 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/14/17 9:29 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM

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Center Name

County

Number of Four-Year-Olds

TREASURES LEARNING CENTER ARCOLA HEAD START CENTER ARMS OF LOVE LEARNING CENTER AND DAYCARE CARE BEARS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER CHARLIE BROWN DAY CARE EDUCATION STATION EVERLASTING LOVE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN PRE-SCHOOL FLORIDA STREET DAY CARE & LEARNING CENTER FULWILER HEADSTART/EARLY HEAD START FUN-SHINE DAYCARE CENTER GARRETT HALL HEAD START GRACE OUTREACH CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER GUILLORY’S GROUP DAY CARE HOME HAPPY SMILES SUMMER CAMP JACK & JILL DAYCARE AND LEARNING CENTER KANGAROO DAY CARE LA LA’S LEARNING ACADEMY LIL DARLINGS LEARNING CENTER LITTLE LAMBS NURSERY & LEARNING CENTER MAJESTY CHILDCARE II MCLEMORE-WARD HEAD START/EARLY HEAD START MINI R CHOSEN LEARNING CENTER MISS LILLIE’S DAYCARE MOTHER GOOSE LEARNING CENTER SITE II NEW BEGINNINGS DAYCARE ONCE UPON A LIFETIME DAYCARE AND LEARNING CENTER OPEN ARMS DAYCARE & LEARNING CENTER OPTIMUM CARE DAY CENTER PAGE MOORE HEAD START/EARLY HEAD START PICKETT STREET LEARNING CENTER PLAY-N-LEARN REDBUD LITTLE LEARNERS ROSE HILL NORTH CHRISTIAN DAY CARE CENTER ST. JAMES EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL SUNSHINE DAY CARE & LEARNING CENTER TENDER AGES LEARNING CENTER THE CHILDREN’S ACADEMY TLC ACADEMY & LEARNING CENTER, LLC TODDLER TOWN INC. TRUE VINE CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER T’STINE’S DAYCARE & LEARNING CENTER

Warren Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington Washington

14 19 8 2 6 12 7 2 1 130 6 109 2 1 3 2 4 3 3 2 2 8 4 3 2 7 2 4 4 64 6 14 3 1 25 10 25 3 10 7 4 5

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Inspection Date and Time 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/8/17 1:51 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/13/17 3:33 PM 11/28/17 9:59 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 12/28/17 1:50 PM 9/29/17 11:33 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/28/17 11:39 AM 10/13/17 10:01 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/30/17 2:48 PM 12/22/17 8:11 PM 10/3/17 10:12 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/28/17 11:02 AM 10/20/17 9:24 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/18/17 6:14 PM 11/19/17 9:39 PM 11/9/17 11:02 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/27/17 2:10 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/12/17 3:36 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM

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Center Name BRIDGEWAY PRESCHOOL BRYANT TURNER HEAD START CENTER FIRST BAPTIST EARLY LEARNING CENTER TAYLOR DAY CARE & LEARNING CENTER CRIBS 2 CRAYONS DAYCARE & LEARNING CENTER V’S PEACE, LOVE & HAPPY FACES A STEP IN FAITH DAYCARE BUSY BEE’S DAYCARE & LEARNING CENTER CENTREVILLE HEAD START CENTER CENTREVILLE LITTLE ANGELS DAYCARE CENTER WOODVILLE HEADSTART CENTER KIDS WORLD FIRST BAPTIST DAY CARE MATTHEWS CHILD CARE CENTER THE TOT SPOT DAY CARE & K 4 WINSTON COUNTY COMPLEX FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH KINDERGARTEN LITTLE PROFESSIONALS DAYCARE WATER VALLEY HEAD START CENTER YALOBUSHA GENERAL HOSP. D/B/A COTTEN CANDY KIDS A TO Z PRESCHOOL INC. ATRA’S PLAYHOUSE FIRST UNITED METHODIST DAY CARE HOCUS, POCUS, DAYCARE CENTER ST. JOHN’S METHODIST CHURCH WEEPING WONDER DAYCARE YAZOO CITY HEAD START CENTER

County

Number of Four-Year-Olds

Wayne Wayne Wayne Wayne Webster Webster Wilkinson Wilkinson Wilkinson Wilkinson Wilkinson Winston Winston Winston Winston Winston Yalobusha Yalobusha Yalobusha Yalobusha Yazoo Yazoo Yazoo Yazoo Yazoo Yazoo Yazoo

3 103 22 3 4 15 6 2 19 3 11 1 1 1 14 90 15 4 42 10 10 1 3 2 2 3 180

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Inspection Date and Time 4/2/18 12:31 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 10/15/17 9:29 PM 8/22/17 12:42 PM 10/3/17 2:07 PM 12/6/17 10:20 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/7/17 10:19 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 7/17/18 4:10 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 11/27/17 4:02 PM 10/27/17 1:20 PM 10/27/17 12:08 PM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 9/13/17 4:57 PM 9/1/17 11:13 AM 12/19/17 10:23 AM 10/24/17 12:14 PM 11/15/17 9:21 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM 8/18/17 12:00 AM

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Appendix G:

Head Start to District Transition Data This spreadsheet provides the source we used to determine the number of students who transitioned to each local school district from Head Start. The total Head Start enrollment for all districts in a county add to the county’s Head Start enrollment used in our county analysis. Each of the reports or surveys listed as a source is described in the Definitions and Sources appendix. In general, all single-district counties use the same source as the county Head Start data. For multiple-district counties, we used a “best estimate” based on a combination of other sources, including the location of Head Start sites and blended Head Start sites. Please see “Constructing Access Rates” in the main body of the report for further discussion.

County

School District

Head Start Seats

Adams

Natchez-Adams School District

193

Alcorn

Alcorn School District

11

Alcorn Amite Attala Attala Benton Bolivar Bolivar Bolivar Calhoun Carroll Chickasaw Chickasaw Chickasaw Choctaw Claiborne

Corinth School District Amite County School District Attala County School District Kosciusko School District Benton County School District Cleveland School District North Bolivar Consolidated School District West Bolivar Consolidated School District Calhoun County School District Carroll County School District Chickasaw County School District Houston School District Okolona Separate School District Choctaw County School District Claiborne County School District

24 71 4 5 111 100 27 63 28 18 6 33 0 11 38

Parent Survey Data Imputed based on Parent Survey Data; Head Start Survey MDE Spring 2018 Test Taker Data MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports Imputed from Parent Survey Data Imputed from Parent Survey Data Head Start Survey Imputed from Head Start Survey Imputed from Head Start Survey Imputed from Head Start Survey Head Start Survey Parent Survey Data Imputed from Parent Survey Parent Survey Imputed from Head Start Survey (Blended) Parent Survey Data Head Start Survey

Clarke

Enterprise School District

0

Imputed from MDE Spring 2018 Test Taker Data

Clarke Clay Coahoma Coahoma Coahoma Copiah Copiah Covington DeSoto Forrest

Quitman School District West Point School District Clarksdale Collegiate Clarksdale Municipal School District Coahoma County School District Copiah County School District Hazlehurst City School District Covington County School District Desoto County School District Forrest County Schools

29 79 30 75 0 80 65 90 365 37

Forrest

Hattiesburg Public School District

66

Forrest Franklin George Greene

Petal School District Franklin County School District George County School District Greene County School District

60 32 76 17

MDE Spring 2018 Test Taker Data Head Start Survey Parent Survey Data Imputed from Parent Survey Data; Head Start Data Imputed from Head Start Survey (Blended) Imputed from MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports Imputed from MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports Head Start Survey Head Start Survey Parent Survey Data Imputed based on Head Start Survey (Blended); Head Start Survey; Parent Survey MDE Spring 2018 Test Taker Data; Parent Survey Data Head Start Survey Head Start Survey MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports

Source

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County

School District

Head Start Seats

Grenada Hancock Hancock

Grenada School District Bay St. Louis School District Hancock County School District

102 42 25

Harrison

Biloxi Public School District

104

Harrison

Gulfport School District

194

Harrison

Harrison County School District

287

Harrison

Long Beach School District

33

Harrison

Pass Christian Public School District

49

Hinds Hinds Hinds Hinds Holmes Holmes Humphreys Itawamba Jackson Jackson Jackson Jackson Jasper Jasper Jefferson Jefferson Davis Jones Jones Kemper Lafayette Lafayette Lamar Lamar Lauderdale Lauderdale Lawrence Leake Lee Lee Lee Lee

Clinton Public School District Hinds County School District Jackson Public School District Joel E. Smilow (Republic) Durant Public School District Holmes County Consolidated School District Humphreys County School District Itawamba County School District Jackson County School District Moss Point School District Ocean Springs School District Pascagoula Separate School District East Jasper School District West Jasper School District Jefferson County School District Jefferson Davis County School District Jones County School District Laurel School District Kemper County School District Lafayette County School District Oxford School District Lamar County School District Lumberton Public School District Lauderdale County School District Meridian Public School District Lawrence County School District Leake County School District Baldwyn School District Lee County School District Nettleton School District Tupelo Public School District

67 166 640 35 0 155 89 105 60 39 37 89 57 56 83 134 105 103 32 7 46 38 0 45 134 0 80 0 39 0 24

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Source Head Start Survey Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Imputed from Parent Survey Data; MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports Imputed from Parent Survey Data; MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports Imputed from Parent Survey Data; MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports Imputed from Parent Survey Data; MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports Imputed from Parent Survey Data; MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Consolidated in 2018-2019 Parent Survey Data Parent Survey Data Head Start Survey Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Imputed from MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports Imputed from MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports Local Program Verification Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports Parent Survey Data Imputed from Parent Survey Data; Head Start Data Head Start Survey Consolidated in 2018-2019 Parent Survey Data Imputed from Parent Survey Data; Head Start Data Head Start Survey (Blended) MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports Head Start Survey (Blended) Imputed from Head Start Survey Head Start Survey (Blended) Imputed from Head Start Survey

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County

School District

Leflore Leflore Lincoln Lincoln Lowndes Lowndes Madison Madison Marion Marion Marshall Marshall Monroe Monroe Monroe Montgomery Montgomery Neshoba Neshoba Newton Newton Newton Noxubee

Greenwood Public School District Leflore County School District Brookhaven School District Lincoln County School District Columbus Municipal School District Lowndes County School District Canton Public School District Madison County School District Columbia School District Marion County School District Holly Springs School District Marshall County School District Aberdeen School District Amory School District Monroe School District Montgomery County School District Winona-Montgomery Consolidated District Neshoba County School District Philadelphia Public School District Newton County School District Newton Municipal School District Union Public School District Noxubee County School District Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District North Panola School District South Panola School District Pearl River County School District Picayune School District Poplarville Separate School District Perry County Schools Richton School District McComb School District North Pike School District South Pike School District Pontotoc City Schools Pontotoc County Schools Booneville School District Prentiss County School District Quitman County School District Pearl Public School District Rankin County School District Forest Municipal School District

Oktibbeha Panola Panola Pearl River Pearl River Pearl River Perry Perry Pike Pike Pike Pontotoc Pontotoc Prentiss Prentiss Quitman Rankin Rankin Scott

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Head Start Seats

Source

75 76 93 21 129 28 91 0 13 22 52 139 40 27 11 0 33 56 36 18 51 11 63

Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Parent Survey Data Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Parent Survey Data Head Start Survey Imputed from Head Start Survey (Blended) Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Parent Survey Data Parent Survey Data Consolidated in 17-18 Consolidated in 17-18; Parent Survey Data Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Parent Survey Data Head Start Survey

133

Head Start Survey

86 87 0 0 0 0 23 108 42 62 26 12 37 57 43 37 97 79

Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Head Start Survey (Blended) Head Start Survey (Blended) Head Start Survey (Blended) Imputed from Parent Survey Data Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Head Start Survey Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data

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County

School District

Scott Sharkey Simpson Smith Stone

Scott County School District South Delta School District Simpson County School District Smith County School District Stone County School District Sunflower County Consolidated School District

Sunflower

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Head Start Seats

Source

92 47 110 53 49

Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports Head Start Survey Parent Survey Data Head Start Survey

146

Parent Survey Data

Tallahatchie

East Tallahatchie School District

37

Tallahatchie

West Tallahatchie School District

26

Tate

Senatobia Municipal School District

39

Tate

Tate County School District

59

Tippah Tippah Tishomingo Tunica Union Union Walthall Warren Washington Washington Washington Washington Wayne Webster Wilkinson Winston Yalobusha Yalobusha Yazoo Yazoo

North Tippah School District South Tippah School District Tishomingo County Schools Tunica County School District New Albany Public Schools Union County School District Walthall County School District Vicksburg Warren School District Greenville Public School District Hollandale School District Leland School District Western Line School District Wayne County School District Webster County School District Wilkinson County School District Louisville Municipal School District Coffeeville School District Water Valley School District Yazoo City Municipal School District Yazoo County School District

48 53 84 49 48 42 71 100 135 0 0 0 67 30 30 92 9 29 147 0

Imputed based on Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Imputed based on Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Imputed based on Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Imputed based on Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Imputed based on Head Start Survey Imputed based on Head Start Survey Head Start Survey Head Start Survey Imputed based on Head Start Survey Imputed based on Head Start Survey Head Start Survey Head Start Survey Parent Survey Data Imputed based on Blended Imputed based on Blended Imputed based on Blended Parent Survey Data Parent Survey Data MSDH Licensure and Inspection Reports Head Start Survey Imputed from Parent Survey Imputed from Head Start Survey; Parent Survey Data Head Start Survey Head Start Survey (Blended)

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Appendix H: Significant Seat Changes by County County

Significant Seat Changes

Adams Alcorn Amite Attala Benton Bolivar Calhoun Carroll Chickasaw Choctaw Claiborne Clarke Clay Coahoma Copiah Covington DeSoto Forrest Franklin George Greene Grenada Hancock Harrison Hinds Holmes Humphreys Itawamba Jackson Jasper Jefferson Jefferson Davis Jones Kemper Lafayette Lamar Lauderdale Lawrence Leake Lee

Childcare -28; Head Start -21; District -9 Childcare -32; Head Start -1; District +43 District +12 Childcare -19; Head Start -83; District +135 Head Start +7 Childcare -8; Head Start -174; District +4 District +10 Head Start +6; District -16 Childcare -10; Head Start -22; District -23; +21 Blended Childcare -3; Head Start -11; District -11; Blended +12 Childcare -2; Head Start -38; District +9 Childcare +13; Head Start +29; District +60; Blended -111 Childcare -16; Head Start - 35; District -4 Childcare -13; Head Start - 99; District -13; Blended +8 Childcare +13; Head Start +30 Childcare -1; Head Start -36; District -14; Blended +119 Childcare -61; Head Start +9; District -40 Childcare +105; Head Start -91; District -178; Blended +138 Head Start +3; District +3 Childcare -32; Head Start -12; District +40 Childcare -4; Head Start -54; Childcare -18; Head Start -12; District +43 Childcare -11; Head Start -47; District +46 Childcare -69; Head Start-75; District +75 Childcare -44; Head Start -70; District +3; Blended +20 Childcare -6; Head Start -60; District +1 Childcare -9; Head Start -47; District +16 Childcare +14; Head Start -20; District -11 Childcare -18; Head Start -165; District -23; Blended +52 Childcare -19; Head Start -40; District -1 Head Start -2; District +20; Blended -20 Childcare -3; Head Start +35 Childcare +30; Head Start +9 Childcare -2; Head Start -5; District +2 Childcare -16; Head Start -36; District +116; Blended -112 Childcare -129; Head Start +17; District +60; Blended +8 Childcare +5; Head Start -53; District -44 Childcare -8; Head Start -134; Blended +78 Childcare +29; Head Start -19 Childcare -103; Head Start -172; District +36; Blended +115

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County

Significant Seat Changes

Leflore Lincoln Lowndes Madison Marion Marshall Monroe Montgomery Neshoba Newton Noxubee Oktibbeha Panola Pearl River Perry Pike Pontotoc Prentiss Quitman Rankin Scott Sharkey-Issaquena Simpson Smith Stone Sunflower Tallahatchie Tate Tippah Tishomingo Tunica Union Walthall Warren Washington Wayne Webster Wilkinson Winston Yalobusha Yazoo

Childcare -36; Head Start -34; District -20 Childcare -2; Head Start +4; District +64 Childcare -59; Head Start +157; District +27; Blended -57 Childcare -140; Head Start -89; District +69; Blended -10 Childcare -31; Head Start -170; District -10; Blended +47 Childcare -2; Head Start -40; Blended -1 Childcare -152; Head Start +6; District +118 Childcare +1; Head Start -38; District +27 Childcare +12; Head Start +12; District +1 Childcare -11; Head Start +1; District -20 Childcare -14; Head Start +9; District +1 Childcare +8; Head Start -13; District -3 Childcare +27; Head Start +16; District -8; Blended -15 Childcare -1; Head Start -132; District -10; Blended +115 Childcare -9; Head Start -17; District -30 Childcare -25; Head Start +146; District +32; Blended -169 Childcare +31; Head Start -28; District -60 Childcare +15; Head Start -65; District +30 Childcare -6; Head Start -6; District -6 Childcare -160; Head Start +16; District +100 Childcare -4; Head Start -18 Childcare -3; Head Start -4; District -5 Childcare -23; Head Start -1 Childcare -16; Head Start -19; District -25 Childcare +11; Head Start +5 Childcare-22; Head Start +106; District -51 Childcare +3; Head Start -12; District -29; Blended +32 Childcare -20; Head Start -23; District -4 Head Start +47; District -19 Childcare +24; Head Start -44 Childcare +2; Head Start +49; Blended -17 Childcare +23; Head Start -6; District +45 Childcare -4; Head Start -1 Childcare -55; Head Start -114; District +172 Childcare +2; Head Start -186; District +8; Blended +65 Childcare -39; Head Start -25; District +103 Childcare +5; Head Start -4 Head Start -21; District +51; Blended -55 Childcare -27; Head Start +2; District -33 Childcare -27; Head Start +19; District +24 Childcare -1; Head Start -62; District +20; Blended +32

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Appendix I: Significant Seat Changes by District School District Natchez-Adams School District Alcorn School District Corinth School District Amite County School District Attala County School District Kosciusko School District Benton County School District Cleveland School District North Bolivar Consolidated School District West Bolivar Consolidated School District Calhoun County School District Carroll County School District Chickasaw County School District Houston School District Okolona Separate School District Choctaw County School District Claiborne County School District Enterprise School District Quitman School District West Point School District Clarksdale Collegiate Clarksdale Municipal School District Coahoma County School District Copiah County School District Hazlehurst City School District Covington County School District Desoto County School District Forrest County Schools Hattiesburg Public School District Petal School District Franklin County School District George County School District Greene County School District Grenada School District Bay-Waveland School District Hancock County School District Biloxi Public School District Gulfport School District Harrison County School District Long Beach School District

Significant Seat Changes District -9; Head Start -21 District +27; Head Start -7 District +16; Childcare -18; Head Start +6 Head Start +12 District -3; Head Start -12 District +138; Head Start -7 Head Start +7 District -4; Head Start -86 District -3; Head Start -61 District +11; Head Start -27 District +10 District -16; Head Start +6 District -17; Head Start +6 District -6; Head Start -8 Blended +21; Head Start -20 District -11; Blended +12; Head Start -11 District +9; Head Start -38 District +2 District +58; Blended -111; Head Start +29 District -4; Head Start -35 Head Start +30 District -3; Childcare+4; Head Start -114 District +3; Blended +10; Head Start -15 No change in seats Head Start +30 District -14; Blended +119; Head Start -36 District -40; Head Start +9 Blended +26; Head Start -5 District -120; Blended+112; Head Start -101 District -58; Head Start +15 District +3; Head Start +3 District +40; Head Start -12 Head Start -54 District +43; Head Start -12 Head Start -58 District +46; Head Start +11 District +75; Head Start -71 Head Start +34 Head Start -45 Head Start +6

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School District Pass Christian Public School District Clinton Public School District Hinds County School District Jackson Public School District Joel E. Smilow (Republic) Holmes County School District Humphreys County School District Itawamba County School District Jackson County School District Moss Point School District Ocean Springs School District Pascagoula Separate School District East Jasper School District West Jasper School District Jefferson County School District Jefferson Davis County School District Jones County School District Laurel School District Kemper County School District Lafayette County School District Oxford School District Lamar County School District Lumberton Public School District Lauderdale County School District Meridian Public School District Lawrence County School District Leake County School District Baldwyn School District Lee County School District Tupelo Public School District Nettleton School District Greenwood Public School District Leflore County School District Brookhaven School District Lincoln County School District Columbus Municipal School District Lowndes County School District Canton Public School District Madison County School District Columbia School District Marion County School District Holly Springs School District Marshall County School District

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Significant Seat Changes Head Start +1 Head Start +17 District +1; Head Start +42 District +2; Blended +20; Head Start -164 Head Start +35 District +1; Head Start -26 District +16; Head Start -47 District -11; Head Start -20 District +25; Head Start -11 Blended +27; Head Start -53 Head Start -40 District -23; Head Start -61 District -1; Head Start -24 Head Start -16 District +20; Blended -20; Head Start -2 Head Start +35 Head Start +27 Head Start -18 District +2; Head Start -5 Head Start -10 District +116; Blended -112; Head Start -26 District +60; Blended +8; Head Start +38 Head Start -21 District -20; Head Start -20 District -24; Head Start -33 Blended +78; Head Start -134 Head Start -19 Blended +31; Head Start -20 Blended +66; Head Start -85 District +36; Head Start -67 Blended +18 District +15; Head Start -31 District -35; Head Start -3 District +64; Head Start +93 Head Start -89 District -11; Blended -33; Head Start +129 District +38; Blended -24; Head Start +28 District +18; Childcare +18; Head Start -89 District +51; Blended -10 District -10; Blended +18; Head Start -27 Blended +29; Head Start -143 Blended -1; Head Start -11 Head Start -29

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School District Aberdeen School District Amory School District Monroe School District Montgomery County School District Winona-Montgomery Consolidated School District Neshoba County School District Philadelphia Public School District Newton County School District Newton Municipal School District Union Public School District Noxubee County School District Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District North Panola School District South Panola School District Pearl River County School District Picayune School District Poplarville Separate School District Perry County Schools Richton School District McComb School District North Pike School District South Pike School District Pontotoc City Schools Pontotoc County Schools Booneville School District Prentiss County School District Quitman County School District Pearl Public School District Rankin County School District Forest Municipal School District Scott County School District South Delta School District Simpson County School District Smith County School District Stone County School District Sunflower County Consolidated School District East Tallahatchie School District West Tallahatchie School District Senatobia Municipal School District Tate County School District North Tippah School District South Tippah School District Tishomingo County Schools

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Significant Seat Changes District +19; Childcare -27; Head Start +24 District +40; Childcare -34; Head Start -13 District -1; Childcare -25; Head Start -5 District -8; Head Start -14 District +35; Head Start -24 District +5; Head Start +16 District -22; Head Start -4 Head Start -17 Head Start +15 District -2; Head Start +3 District +1; Head Start +9 District -3; Head Start -13 District -8; Head Start +12 Blended -15; Head Start +4 No change in seats District -3; Blended +87; Head Start -95 District -7; Blended+28; Head Start -37 District -30; Head Start -16 Head Start -1 District +13; Childcare -44; Blended-169; Head Start +108 Head Start +38 District +19 Head Start -11 District -60; Head Start -19 Head Start -16 District +30; Head Start -49 District -6; Head Start -6 District +80; Head Start -47 District +20; Head Start +63 Head Start +12 Head Start -30 District -5; Head Start -4 Head Start -1 District -25; Head Start -19 Head Start +5 District -51; Childcare -67; Head Start +106 District -20; Blended+32; Head Start-10 District -9; Head Start -2 District -4; Head Start -2 Head Start -21 Head Start +47 District -19 Head Start -44

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School District Tunica County School District New Albany Public Schools Union County School District Walthall County School District Vicksburg Warren School District Greenville Public School District Hollandale School District Leland School District Western Line School District Wayne County School District Webster County School District Wilkinson County School District Louisville Municipal School District Coffeeville School District Water Valley School District Yazoo City Municipal School District Yazoo County School District

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Significant Seat Changes Blended -17; Head Start +49 District +38; Head Start -16 District -7; Head Start +10 Head Start -1 District +172; Head Start -114 District -9; Head Start -66 Blended +40; Head Start -70 District +17; Blended +25; Head Start -35 Head Start -15 District +103; Head Start -25 Head Start -4 District +51; Blended -55; Head Start -21 District -33; Head Start +2 District +4; Head Start -5 District +20; Head Start -14 District +20; Head Start -3 Blended +32; Head Start -59