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MPSD Fast Facts

The Meridian Public School District covers over 92 acres and serves students in over 440 classrooms across 9 campuses. These numbers, percentages, and estimates are a mid-fall snapshot of fluid demographics. They are updated soon after Oct. 1 each school year.

  • 4,500 students
  • 1,000 employees
  • 11 campuses
    • 5 Elementary Schools
    • 2 Middle Schools
    • 1 High School
    • 1 Career and Technical Center
    • 1 Pre-K Campus
    • 1 Alternative Learning Campus

    Student Population

  • Grades PK-5: 2,240
  • Grades 6-8: 961
  • Grades 9-12: 1,281
  • Total students enrolled: 4,499

   District Diversity

  • African American: 91.98%
  • Caucasian: 2.87% 
  • Hispanic: 2.8%
  • Asian: .6%
  • Native American: .06%
  • Pacific Islander: .04%

 

2024-2025 MPSD GOALS

2024-2025 MPSD Goals

MPSD Mission and Vision

MPSD Mission and Vision

Core Values

The Meridian Public School District strives to:

  • Maintain safe and orderly environments that model respect, integrity, and accountability

  • Relentlessly pursue reading and math literacy to enhance academic excellence
  • Use college and career standards to guide inquiry into innovative learning and teaching
  • Foster citizenship and promote strong moral values through quality educational programs
  • Actively create learner-centered classrooms that foster ownership of student learning
  • Empower families to join their students in goal-setting and reviewing progress toward their goals

Core Beliefs

We believe as MPSD leaders and teachers that:

  • Each student sets goals, monitors his/her progress, and makes adjustments to achieve academic and life goals

  • Each student will learn what is important to know and do under the appropriate instructional conditions to be successful
  • Teachers motivate through high expectations and positive caring relationships by knowing each student deeply, and sharing relevant life experiences
  • Teachers, as active collaborators, continuously monitor the impact of their teaching on student learning using assessment data
  • Teachers and leaders work together to protect and use instructional time wisely, using data as the guide for student learning and achievement
  • Parents are partners in ensuring daily student attendance and active participation in student goal setting and monitoring of student progress