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Black student results in Vermilion Parish

Across 12 schools in Vermilion Parish, 29.4% of Black students meet mastery or above. That is 6.9 points above the Louisiana average for Black students.

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40.8%
All students
29.4%
Black
38.8%
Hispanic
44%
White
61.9%
Asian

Average across the 12 schools in Vermilion 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 8 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, Cecil Picard Elementary School At Maurice reports 42% of Black students meeting the standard. J.h. Williams Middle School, in the same district, reports 11%. That is a 31-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Vermilion 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
Seventh Ward Elementary School 58% 47% 68% 60%
Dozier Elementary School 56% 43% 53% 57% 75%
Cecil Picard Elementary School At Maurice 60% 42% 65% 64% 59%
Jesse Owens Elementary School 33% 34% 33%
North Vermilion Middle School 50% 34% 31% 53% 62%
Kaplan Elementary School 35% 30% 14% 39%
Erath Middle School 48% 30% 47% 50% 75%
Rene A. Rost Middle School 38% 27% 35% 41%
Leblanc Elementary School 42% 25% 49% 49% 52%
James A. Herod Elementary School 22% 17% 17% 24% 55%
Gueydan High School 30% 13% 32%
J.h. Williams Middle School 18% 11% 9% 26% 55%

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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