Louisiana LEAP Test Results

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2019: 34% of students in grades 3-8 achieved Mastery or above across all tested subjects (ELA, Math, Science, Social Studies).

2025: The overall Mastery+ rate for grades 3-8 increased to 39%, a 5-percentage-point improvement since 2021 and surpassing 2019 levels.

Trend: Since the post-COVID low of 29% in 2021, Louisiana students have shown consistent progress. In 2025, 80% of school systems either improved or maintained their grades 3-8 Mastery+ rates, indicating sustained recovery and growth beyond pre-COVID levels.

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Louisiana has many low income/poverty schools where parents treat school as free daycare. Louisiana also has some very intelligent people. The issue is bridging the gap and one way it starts is through the phonics program. Making sure every child can read on grade level.

Once you have that and kids see they are actually smarter than they believe you have students willing to break the cycle of not caring. Louisiana is doing better but still has a ways to go. Parental activity is crucial and too many parents just don't care about education. Once you break that cycle with the kids and they see the positive influence of education then you will start seeing larger growth.

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Youngest has never made anything but As all through- he starts high school next year. He’s a no shite baw- runs his mud boat all over, drives a 250,000 mile 4WD Tacoma.

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He should be mastering those subjects if he's got two years on his classmates.

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How much of the improvement is because they cratered during Covid?

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Here's an article about how Louisiana is the only state that's reading levels have improved since pre-COVID. Suck on this you negative bitch.

After 30 years in public education I can tell you the data is manipulated.

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How much of the improvement is because they cratered during Covid?

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I will say, my son has suffered since the Covid nonsense. Doesn’t seem like he has ever caught back up.

I’m a public school kid from Louisiana (albeit north).

If you have good parents and take honors classes and don’t live in the inner cities you can get as good of an education as anywhere else.

I was as prepared or more prepared for college than any of my private school educated friends.

Once a family accepts responsibility for their own kids and the unshakable shackles that are IQ to an extent, it’s fairly straightforward.

If the US adopted the European model they would be higher. Instead the US forces everyone into getting a HS degree. Other countries use the data they've collected and by 9th grade are pushing kids either into blue collar or white collar work. If you are white collar you take their standardized test and enter in academia. If you are blue collar you do not. If you are in the US every student is forced to take that.

We start in 1st grade with collecting data, by 8th grade we know which students are college bound vs blue collar. However, we don't push students like that because we don't want to offend anyone. So the US could be higher than 41st in the world if we tested like many countries.

Student Performance Score is made into the benchmark, LEAP, DRA/DIBELS, along with grades. There is less manipulation today than there was 10 years ago. Some parishes may still manipulate the data but many of the higher scoring parishes are not and holding teachers accountable.

This is kinda sad since teachers are dealing with behavior, education, training, planning, etc and the standards are getting higher but the pay remains the same. Those extraordinary teachers deserve more than a $500 stipend for being proficient.