In Louisiana, about 1 in 5 Black students reach Mastery — against nearly half of White students. Within Caddo Parish alone, the gap between the best and worst schools for Black children is 82 points. This tool helps you find the right one.
Search Louisiana schools ›Share of students meeting mastery or above at the typical Louisiana school. Groups are shown wherever Louisiana reports them; a group is omitted from a school when too few students were tested to report safely.
These figures come from LDOE LEAP 2025, measuring mastery or above in ELA, Math, Science, Social Studies · Grades 3–8. Across 122 districts, 1,016 Louisiana schools report enough results to be included.
At the typical Louisiana school the picture is black students at 22.5%, hispanic students at 30%, white students at 40.3% and asian students at 59.2%. That is a 36.7-point spread between the highest and lowest group, inside the same schools, the same districts and the same state — which is what this tool exists to make visible.
An A means 80% or more of Black students reach Mastery. Of 892 schools with at least 25 Black student results, four clear it. Caddo Parish Middle Magnet is the largest, at 82% across 246 Black students.
Caddo Parish Middle Magnet reaches 82%. AMIkids Caddo, in the same parish, reports 0%. Across 39 schools in one parish, a child's address decides which end they land on.
Lake Forest Elementary Charter School in Orleans Parish reaches 79% across 352 Black student results — the strongest result in the state at real scale. These schools are proof the ceiling is not fixed.
These are the schools where Black students most often meet mastery or above, among those with at least 25 Black student results reported. Every group's result is shown alongside, because a school that serves one group well and another poorly is telling you something too.
| School | All | Black | Hispanic | White | Asian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gretna No. 2 Academy For Advanced StudiesJefferson Parish Magnet | 91% | 87% | 92% | 94% | 94% |
| Thomas Jefferson High School For Advanced StudiesJefferson Parish Magnet | 91% | 85% | 98% | 88% | 96% |
| Caddo Parish Middle Magnet SchoolCaddo Parish Magnet | 88% | 82% | 84% | 89% | 98% |
| Patrick F. Taylor Science & Technology AcademyJefferson Parish Magnet | 87% | 82% | 94% | 86% | 93% |
| Lake Forest Elementary Charter SchoolOrleans Parish Charter | 81% | 79% | 91% | — | 89% |
| Mayfair Laboratory SchoolEast Baton Rouge Parish Magnet | 86% | 78% | 87% | 89% | 83% |
| The Willow SchoolOrleans Parish Charter | 88% | 77% | 90% | 89% | 92% |
| Bolton AcademyRapides Parish | 81% | 76% | 93% | 84% | 68% |
| Lsu Laboratory SchoolLsu Laboratory School | 86% | 73% | 79% | 88% | 98% |
| Fairfield Magnet SchoolCaddo Parish Magnet | 83% | 70% | 89% | 85% | 91% |
Flags show magnet, charter, alternative and virtual schools. Some campuses — early college and specialized academies among them — also admit by application, and this page cannot yet identify all of them. Check with the district before assuming a school is open to your address.
The same measure at the other end of the range. In many of these schools every group is falling short, which points at the school rather than at the students in it.
| School | All | Black | Hispanic | White | Asian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Academy Of Collaborative Education (ace)Academy Of Collaboration Education Charter | 0% | 0% | — | — | — |
| Jehovah-jireh Christian AcademyJehovah-jireh Christian Academy | 1% | 0% | — | — | — |
| Amikids CaddoCaddo Parish CharterAlt | 1% | 0% | 0% | 18% | — |
| Sherrouse SchoolCity Of Monroe School District Alt | 1% | 1% | — | 0% | — |
| Morehouse Elementary SchoolMorehouse Parish | 2% | 1% | — | 3% | — |
| Ebr Readiness Superintendent AcademyEast Baton Rouge Parish Alt | 3% | 2% | 0% | — | — |
| Northdale Superintendent's AcademyEast Baton Rouge Parish Alt | 1% | 2% | — | — | — |
| Louisiana Key Academy Baton RougeLouisiana Key Academy Baton Rouge Charter | 6% | 3% | — | 18% | — |
| Crescent City Christian SchoolCrescent City Christian School | 11% | 3% | 31% | 26% | — |
| Redemptorist Elementary SchoolBaton Rouge Diocese | 3% | 3% | — | — | — |
In Caddo Parish, Caddo Parish Middle Magnet School reports 82% of Black students meeting the standard. Amikids Caddo, in the same district, reports 0%. That is a 82-point spread across 39 schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base — the clearest illustration of why address matters more than it should.
Districts with at least ten schools reporting Black student results, by school count. The percentage shown is the average across that district's schools for Black students.