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Black student results in Lafourche Parish

Across 15 schools in Lafourche Parish, 26.9% of Black students meet mastery or above. That is 4.4 points above the Louisiana average for Black students.

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42.7%
All students
26.9%
Black
38.4%
Hispanic
50.2%
White
80%
Asian

Average across the 15 schools in Lafourche 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 14 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, Bayou Community Academy Charter School reports 58% of Black students meeting the standard. Lockport Middle School, in the same district, reports 6%. That is a 52-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Lafourche 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
Bayou Community Academy Charter School Charter 73% 58% 63% 75% 96%
Bayou Blue Upper Elementary School 42% 39% 29% 44%
St. Charles Elementary School 50% 38% 54% 57%
Golden Meadow Middle School 41% 36% 32% 48% 69%
Bayou Blue Middle School 44% 29% 39% 52%
Chackbay Elementary School 60% 28% 60% 64%
Lockport Upper Elementary School 56% 28% 39% 60%
Raceland Upper Elementary School 42% 28% 34% 54%
South Larose Elementary School 40% 22% 30% 44% 80%
Virtual Academy Of Lafourche Charter 33% 22% 37%
Raceland Middle School 38% 20% 46% 48%
Thibodaux Middle School 29% 18% 26% 46% 75%
W.s. Lafargue Elementary School 19% 16% 17% 29%
C.m. Washington Elementary School 23% 15% 23% 41%
Lockport Middle School 51% 6% 46% 54%

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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