COLUMBUS – The Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science (MSMS) has accepted 130 new junior students to study in at the prestigious public high school this fall.
Jaylin Lyndell Jones from Coahoma County Jr./Sr. High School is one of those from across the state carefully selected to attend. He is the son of Nellie Jones.
MSMS is the state’s nationally recognized residential high school for academically advanced eleventh and twelfth graders.
Graduating classes have averaged over $9 million in accepted scholarship for the last five years; graduates attend universities all over Mississippi and the nation.
The Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science is Mississippi’s only public, residential high school focused on STEM education and specifically designed to meet the needs of the state’s most academically gifted and talented students.
The school has been named by several publications as one of America’s best high schools. MSMS was recently ranked the No. 6 Best Public High School in the nation (second consecutive year) and the faculty was ranked No. 1 as the Best Public High School Teachers in the nation (third consecutive year) by Niche.
Founded in 1987, on the campus of the Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, the mission of MSMS is “to enhance the future of Mississippi in the global society by meeting the individual needs of gifted and talented students through providing innovative learning experiences and leadership development in a residential environment.”
Additionally, MSMS is a member of the National Consortium for Secondary STEM schools (NCSSS), and at the founding was the fourth such school to exist in the nation.
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