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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Department of Education has released the share of students in each school district that passed a new reading test required to advance from third grade to fourth grade. Statewide 85 percent of students, or 32,200, passed. Failing statewide were 15 percent of students, or 5,600. Here's a look at the share passing by district:
Aberdeen: 88 percent
Alcorn County: 91
Amite County: 78
Amory: 88
Attala County: 88
Baldwyn: 93
Bay St. Louis-Waveland: 91
Benton County: 89
Biloxi: 92
Booneville: 94
Brookhaven: 75
Calhoun County: 87
Canton: 69
Carroll County: 81
Chickasaw County: 78
Choctaw County: 94
Claiborne County: 73
Clarksdale: 69
Clay County: 100
Cleveland: 82
Clinton: 98
Coahoma County: 85
Coffeeville: 74
Columbia: 82
Columbus: 81
Copiah County: 78
Corinth: 95
Covington County: 83
DeSoto County: 87
Durant: 67
East Jasper: 73
East Tallahatchie: 87
Enterprise: 99
Forest: 68
Forrest County: 83
Franklin County: 92
George County: 87
Greene County: 86
Greenville: 63
Greenwood: 74
Grenada: 92
Gulfport: 90
Hancock County: 89
Harrison County: 92
Hattiesburg: 80
Hazlehurst: 61
Hinds County: 85
Hollandale: 77
Holly Springs: 71
Holmes County: 59
Houston: 95
Humphreys County: 65
Itawamba County: 92
Jackson County: 92
Jackson: 72
Jefferson County: 71
Jefferson Davis County: 84
Jones County: 88
Kemper County: 78
Kosciusko: 92
Lafayette County: 94
Lamar County: 92
Lauderdale County: 88
Laurel: 86
Lawrence County: 90
Leake County: 75
Lee County: 93
Leflore County: 68
Leland: 68
Lincoln County: 94
Long Beach: 91
Louisville: 85
Lowndes County: 93
Lumberton: 84
Madison County: 96
Marion County: 85
Marshall County: 74
McComb: 70
Meridian: 82
Monroe County: 92
Montgomery County: 88
Moss Point: 68
Natchez-Adams: 81
Neshoba County: 94
Nettleton: 98
New Albany: 92
Newton County: 95
Newton: 89
North Bolivar: 73
North Panola: 85
North Pike: 92
North Tippah: 88
Noxubee County: 73
Ocean Springs: 96
Okolona: 62
Oktibbeha County: 75
Oxford: 91
Pascagoula-Gautier: 91
Pass Christian: 94
Pearl: 90
Pearl River County: 100
Perry County: 89
Petal: 94
Philadelphia: 78
Picayune: 85
Pontotoc: 93
Pontotoc County: 90
Poplarville: 94
Prentiss County: 89
Quitman County: 85
Quitman: 85
Rankin County: 92
Richton: 80
Scott County: 85
Senatobia: 80
Simpson County: 89
Smith County: 93
South Delta: 73
South Panola: 94
South Pike: 77
South Tippah: 92
Starkville: 84
Stone County: 93
Sunflower County: 78
Tate County: 80
Tishomingo County: 91
Tunica County: 79
Tupelo: 88
Union County: 92
Union: 91
Vicksburg-Warren: 82
Walthall County: 78
Water Valley: 80
Wayne County: 84
Webster County: 88
West Bolivar: 74
West Jasper: 81
West Point: 92
West Tallahatchie: 74
Western Line: 85
Wilkinson County: 57
Winona: 90
Yazoo City: 53
Yazoo County: 82
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SOURCE: Mississippi Department of Education
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