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How Black students are performing in Louisiana schools

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.

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29.9%
All students
22.5%
Black
30%
Hispanic
40.3%
White
59.2%
Asian

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.

What the Louisiana data shows

Landscape
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Louisiana schools earn an A for Black students

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.

Disparity
82 pts

gap between the best and worst schools for Black students in Caddo Parish

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.

Opportunity
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schools where 60%+ of Black students reach Mastery

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.

Where Black students are doing best in Louisiana

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.

SchoolAllBlackHispanicWhiteAsian
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.

Where Black students are struggling most

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.

SchoolAllBlackHispanicWhiteAsian
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%

One district, two outcomes

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.

Louisiana districts

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.

East Baton Rouge Parish — 69 schools, 22.2% average
Jefferson Parish — 56 schools, 25.8% average
Orleans Parish — 44 schools, 22% average
Caddo Parish — 39 schools, 20.5% average
Calcasieu Parish — 36 schools, 23.7% average
Lafayette Parish — 35 schools, 28.8% average
St. Tammany Parish — 31 schools, 25.8% average
Rapides Parish — 29 schools, 28.4% average
Livingston Parish — 27 schools, 27.6% average
Ascension Parish — 25 schools, 38.5% average
St. Landry Parish — 25 schools, 20.6% average
Bossier Parish — 24 schools, 24.7% average
Tangipahoa Parish — 24 schools, 15% average
Ouachita Parish — 20 schools, 21.4% average
Iberia Parish — 18 schools, 23.2% average
Terrebonne Parish — 17 schools, 27.5% average
St. Mary Parish — 15 schools, 18% average
Lafourche Parish — 14 schools, 26.1% average
City Of Monroe School District — 14 schools, 15.9% average
Acadia Parish — 12 schools, 16.3% average
St. Bernard Parish — 11 schools, 24.6% average
Avoyelles Parish — 10 schools, 18.1% average
Evangeline Parish — 10 schools, 19.8% average
St. Charles Parish — 10 schools, 27.6% average
St. John The Baptist Parish — 9 schools, 21.3% average
Webster Parish — 9 schools, 14.1% average
New Orleans Archdiocese — 9 schools, 16.4% average
Iberville Parish — 8 schools, 22.9% average
Jefferson Davis Parish — 8 schools, 18.1% average
Natchitoches Parish — 8 schools, 32.9% average
Richland Parish — 8 schools, 9.6% average
St. Martin Parish — 8 schools, 17.6% average
Vermilion Parish — 8 schools, 27% average
Washington Parish — 8 schools, 13.5% average
Sabine Parish — 7 schools, 15.7% average
Allen Parish — 6 schools, 20% average
Assumption Parish — 6 schools, 13.8% average
Desoto Parish — 6 schools, 23.3% average
Lincoln Parish — 6 schools, 28% average
Plaquemines Parish — 6 schools, 31.3% average
How these averages are calculated. The figures above average across Louisiana schools, giving each school equal weight. They describe the typical school, not the state's tested population, and will differ from the headline figure LDOE LEAP 2025 publishes — that one weights every student equally, so larger schools count for more. Use the state's own published figure when citing a statewide number.

How to read the school data. Louisiana suppresses results under FERPA and marks groups under ten students as NR. Where the Advanced share is masked as under 5%, proficiency is derived from the reported lower achievement levels. Schools without a reportable Black student result are excluded rather than shown as zero — 1,016 of the state's schools have reportable data. This ranking reflects the Spring 2025 LEAP administration. The Louisiana Department of Education publishes updated results each summer. Rankings will be refreshed each year as new data becomes available. Because every state sets its own proficiency standard, Louisiana's figures should not be compared directly against another state's.

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