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APPLICATION PROCESS
1. Read Licensure Instructions and Checklist (located within the paper application) to locate
the license for which you are applying.

2. Download a Licensure Application Packet or apply online.  (The Division of Educator
Licensure cannot, by law, process any requests without receipt of an official completed
licensure application submitted by the prospective or practicing educator.)

3. All required supporting documents for the requested license must be submitted to the
Division of Educator Licensure prior to application processing. Select supporting documents
can be uploaded directly into the applicant’s Educator Licensure Management System
(ELMS) educator account. Official sealed copies of the applicant’s transcript(s) and all pages
of the official score report(s) must be mailed to the Mississippi Department of Education,
Division of Educator Licensure, P.O. Box 771, Jackson, MS 39205-0771 or submitted
electronically directly from the respective college/university and administering testing
company.

 

When the process Is complete, you can go to "Licensure Look-up" on the ELMS log-in page to print your MS Ed. License. 

Click here for ELMS Login

Contact Cindy Brister, 228-938-6515 or cbrister@pgsd.ms, with questions. 

Licensure Guidelines K12