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Black student results in St. Mary Parish

Across 16 schools in St. Mary Parish, 19.5% of Black students meet mastery or above. That is 3 points below the Louisiana average for Black students.

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28.9%
All students
19.5%
Black
30%
Hispanic
36.3%
White
72%
Asian

Average across the 16 schools in St. Mary 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 15 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, Wyandotte Elementary School reports 27% of Black students meeting the standard. M.e. Norman Elementary School, in the same district, reports 9%. That is a 18-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in St. Mary 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 Vista Elementary School 43% 42% 34% 45%
Wyandotte Elementary School 44% 27% 39% 58% 83%
Patterson Junior High School 36% 26% 42% 43% 100%
Raintree Elementary School 28% 26% 29%
Hattie A. Watts Elementary School 25% 23% 24% 23%
B. Edward Boudreaux Middle School 28% 23% 41%
Julia B. Maitland School 30% 22% 41% 44%
Berwick Elementary School 46% 21% 39% 53%
Berwick Junior High School 35% 16% 27% 42%
Centerville High School 31% 16% 43% 37%
W.p. Foster Elementary School 15% 16% 8%
J.s. Aucoin Elementary School 42% 14% 40% 68% 59%
Lagrange Elementary School 11% 11% 0% 16%
Franklin Junior High School 12% 10% 26% 19%
Morgan City Junior High School 18% 10% 18% 27% 46%
M.e. Norman Elementary School 19% 9% 17% 28%

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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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