Erica Miller

The Harrison County School District's Dropout Prevention Plan for 2025-2026 aims to reduce dropout rates and increase graduation rates by focusing on several key areas. These include reducing early grade retention, providing targeted assistance to at-risk student subgroups, implementing dropout recovery initiatives for older students, and facilitating smooth transitions from juvenile detention centers. The plan outlines long-term goals to improve academic proficiency, increase graduation rates, decrease out-of-school suspensions and chronic absenteeism, with specific strategies developed by various departments like Curriculum & Instruction, Federal Programs, Special Education, Career & Technical, Child Nutrition, Athletics, Technology, and Research & Development.

This Dropout Prevention Plan for West Harrison High School outlines comprehensive strategies and goals for the 2025-2026 academic year, focusing on reducing expulsions, improving academic outcomes in English II and ACT scores, and increasing overall student attendance. Key areas include implementing the Mississippi Tiered System of Supports for academic and behavioral interventions, addressing chronic absenteeism, providing support for homeless students, and facilitating dropout recovery initiatives. The plan emphasizes data-driven decision-making, professional development for staff, and creating a supportive environment to enhance student success and reduce dropout rates.

This document outlines an Elementary School-Level Dropout Prevention Plan for Pineville Elementary, designed to provide early support for at-risk students. The plan focuses on key strategic areas including improving English Language Arts and Mathematics proficiency rates, increasing average daily attendance and reducing truancy rates, and decreasing student suspension and referral rates. It details objectives and interventions across these areas to enhance academic achievement, foster a positive school environment, and ensure students' overall success.

The agenda covers various administrative and operational items including discussions on mobile dental services, a proposed football facility, approval of general ledger records, and discipline committee decisions. Consent agenda items involve the approval of claim dockets, various student travel requests for sports and clubs, professional services payments for land appraisals, legal services, emergency roofing repairs at West Harrison High School, and energy services projects. Additionally, the board addressed 16th section land leases, right of way agreements, personnel matters, equipment inventory removals, and multiple student appeal cases. An executive session was scheduled to discuss litigation.

The agenda focuses on several key items including policy reviews, the approval of financial statements and the general ledger, and discipline committee decisions. Consent agenda items cover claims dockets, facility usage requests for local police and sheriff departments, various professional service payments, roof and field improvement projects, and student service extensions. Furthermore, the board addressed the advertising of sealed bids, procurement for instructional services, student travel requests for a national competition, and the award of a bid for cafeteria equipment. Appeals regarding specific cases and a parent appeal, alongside personnel matters and executive sessions for litigation, were also scheduled for discussion.