Of the 472 students enrolled in Ambition Preparatory schools in the 2023-24 school year, 98.9% were Black, according to the Mississippi Department of Education.
This is a 0.2% increase over the previous school year.
A snapshot of Ambition Preparatory’s student body showed that 98.9% of students were Black and 1.1% were multiracial.
Ambition Preparatory roughly covers one school and has a main office in Jackson.
Mississippi’s schools, with an enrollment of 436,523 in the 2023-24 academic year, are mostly divided between two ethnicities, with Black or African American students being the largest racial group at 46.86%, followed by white students at 42.14%.
Students in the state showed a significant improvement in the 2022-23 academic year, demonstrating sustained progress in their post-pandemic recovery. Overall, 87% of schools and 91% of districts achieved a grade of C or better, compared to 81% of schools and 87% of districts in the prior year.
Results from the 2022-23 Mississippi Academic Assessment Program (MAAP) showed students reaching an all-time high in all core subjects. Students better performed on the Math and English portion of the test, achieving grades around 5% better than in the previous year.
