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Black student results in Ascension Parish

Across 26 schools in Ascension Parish, 38.7% of Black students meet mastery or above. That is 16.2 points above the Louisiana average for Black students.

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49.6%
All students
38.7%
Black
38.5%
Hispanic
59.4%
White
81.1%
Asian

Average across the 26 schools in Ascension Parish with reportable results, giving each school equal weight regardless of size. A group is omitted from a school when too few students were tested to report safely.

The distance inside one district

Among the 25 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, Prairieville Primary School reports 53% of Black students meeting the standard. Lowery Middle School, in the same district, reports 16%. That is a 37-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Ascension Parish

Ranked by the share of Black students meeting mastery or above. Every group is shown alongside, because a school that serves one group well and another poorly is telling you something too.

SchoolAllBlackHispanicWhiteAsian
Prairieville Primary School 64% 53% 48% 70% 81%
Dutchtown Middle School 61% 51% 41% 69% 78%
Prairieville Middle School 68% 50% 53% 73% 84%
Dutchtown Primary School 64% 50% 49% 74% 75%
Oak Grove Primary School 66% 49% 46% 71% 81%
Sugar Mill Primary 45% 47% 26% 54%
Bluff Middle School 70% 47% 64% 79% 83%
St. Amant Primary School 56% 44% 32% 59%
Pecan Grove Primary School 47% 44% 42% 55%
Spanish Lake Primary School 62% 44% 40% 74% 84%
Galvez Primary School 54% 43% 44% 60%
Sorrento Primary School 50% 40% 42% 59%
Bullion Primary School 64% 40% 66% 71% 73%
Bluff Ridge Primary 62% 40% 44% 72% 97%
St. Amant Middle School 49% 39% 41% 53% 69%
Galvez Middle School 50% 38% 40% 63% 80%
Duplessis Primary School 43% 38% 34% 54%
Lakeside Primary School 47% 36% 31% 52% 82%
G. W. Carver Primary School 35% 33% 31% 58%
Central Primary School 43% 33% 34% 48%
Gonzales Primary School 35% 31% 40% 42%
Lake Elementary School 51% 31% 33% 54% 87%
Central Middle School 41% 26% 28% 55%
Gonzales Middle School 28% 24% 31% 38%
Lowery Elementary School 19% 19% 8% 29%
Lowery Middle School 16% 16% 13%

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How to read this. 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. Because every state sets its own proficiency standard, Louisiana figures should not be compared against another state's.

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