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Black student results in Calcasieu Parish

Across 43 schools in Calcasieu Parish, 25.2% of Black students meet mastery or above. That is 2.7 points above the Louisiana average for Black students.

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36.4%
All students
25.2%
Black
35.2%
Hispanic
43.1%
White
69.1%
Asian

Average across the 43 schools in Calcasieu 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 36 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, Prien Lake Elementary School reports 52% of Black students meeting the standard. Ralph F. Wilson Elementary School, in the same district, reports 9%. That is a 43-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Calcasieu 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
T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School Magnet 90% 74% 94% 93% 95%
Prien Lake Elementary School 68% 52% 74% 74% 71%
Lebleu Settlement Elementary School 64% 50% 75% 67%
Vincent Settlement Elementary School 71% 42% 75% 72%
Bell City High School 41% 38% 33% 42%
Moss Bluff Middle School 53% 37% 35% 56% 92%
Maplewood Elementary 46% 37% 47% 46% 57%
Gillis Elementary School 42% 34% 34% 46%
A. A. Nelson Elementary School 47% 33% 38% 52% 62%
Iowa High School 40% 32% 30% 44%
S. J. Welsh Middle School 47% 32% 41% 54% 74%
Western Heights Elementary School 43% 31% 50% 45% 33%
W. T. Henning Elementary School 35% 30% 22% 39% 33%
Dolby Elementary School 39% 29% 49%
W. W. Lewis Middle School 49% 29% 25% 54% 72%
St. John Elementary School 42% 29% 37% 49% 86%
Dequincy Middle School 41% 28% 53% 42%
Maplewood Middle School 41% 28% 30% 44% 81%
Moss Bluff Elementary School 50% 28% 38% 54% 56%
M. J. Kaufman Elementary School 34% 25% 35% 37%
F. K. White Middle School 37% 25% 22% 63% 82%
Frasch Elementary School 57% 24% 62% 56%
S. P. Arnett Middle School 43% 23% 36% 50% 73%
J. I. Watson Elementary School 32% 23% 31% 37%
Combre-fondel Elementary School 21% 21% 21% 20%
T. H. Watkins Elementary School 22% 21% 26%
E. K. Key Elementary School 46% 18% 42% 52%
Dequincy Elementary School 38% 18% 15% 41%
Barbe Elementary School 14% 16% 7% 28%
Brentwood Elementary School 18% 16% 17%
College Oaks Elementary School 19% 16% 25% 38%
Oak Park Middle School 17% 16% 10% 31%
Vinton Middle School 31% 16% 25% 35%
Leblanc Middle School 35% 15% 28% 39%
Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School Magnet 15% 14% 25% 7%
Pearl Watson Elementary School 15% 13% 50% 15%
Henry Heights Elementary School 18% 12% 35% 27%
Oak Park Elementary School 13% 12% 25%
Richard W. Vincent Elementary School 31% 12% 19% 39%
Vinton Elementary School 17% 11% 23% 18%
Fairview Elementary School 15% 10% 15% 45%
Ralph F. Wilson Elementary School 11% 9%
Starks High School 17% 6% 0% 18%

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.

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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