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Transparency scorecard

Mississippi

Grade C

63/100 points · Ranked #19 of 51 jurisdictions. Agency: Mississippi Department of Human Services, Division of Early Childhood Care and Development.

Score breakdown

Record depth
About 51 years of inspection history publicly retrievable.
25/25
Downloadable data
Data is reachable via a public search form or portal API, not a bulk dump.
10/20
Severity levels
State does not publish a usable severity/risk tier for citations.
0/15
Complaints published
Complaint rows exist (437), but dispositions are limited or unmapped.
8/15
% with any inspection
99.3% of providers have at least one inspection on file (1,471 of 1,481).
15/15
Access friction
Partial barriers (gated PDFs, quotas, or incomplete structured fields).
5/10

Site-visit metadata; narratives often in postback PDFs.

What this grade means

Where it falls short: Violation narratives often trapped in PDF postbacks.

Browse Mississippi providers on KinderFax. Official portal: Child Care Provider Search. Download the national CSV: transparency-scorecard.csv.