State of Pre-K Series

In 2017, we released the second State of Pre-K in Mississippi report. This report provided updated data about the state’s public pre-K programs as well as detailed programmatic information about private licensed childcare centers serving four-year-old children. The report also offered information about the quality of pre-K programs in school districts. Lastly, we updated and expanded the pre-K access data in each Mississippi community to account for four-year-old children who may have been served in licensed childcare centers in addition to Head Start programs and school district pre-K programs.

Read the 2017 State of Pre-K in Mississippi report (PDF).

• Executive Summary
• The State of Pre-K Analysis (7/14/2017)
• The State of Pre-K in Mississippi Summary Data (2014-2015)
• Definitions & Sources
• Appendix A
• Appendix B (7/14/2017)
• Appendix C
• Pre-K Data File – County Access Information
• Pre-K Data File – School District Information (7/14/2017)
• Pre-K Data File – Childcare Information
• Corrections to the Report (8/25/2017)

Mississippi First released The State of Public Pre-Kindergarten in Mississippi in 2015 as a follow-up to the Title I Preliminary Report. It provided more detailed programmatic and contextual data about public school pre-K programs and the communities they served in 2011-2012.

• Read the full report (PDF).
• The Relationship between Public Pre-K Access and Poverty– By Rachel Canter
  The Relationship between Publicly Funded Pre-K Access and Geography in Mississippi– By Angela Bass
• The State of Public Pre-K in Mississippi Summary Data (2011-2012)
• Access and Demographic Data
• Collaboration Data
• State of Public Pre-K (2011-2012)

The report link is being updated as corrections are submitted. Updated: 3/23/2015