Summary:
The Recovery School District-LDE in Louisiana contains only one school, Linwood Public Charter School, which serves grades PK-8 with an enrollment of 1,059 students. This school is part of a low-performing district, ranked 103 out of 118 districts in the state, and the school itself has seen a decline in its statewide ranking over the past three years, from 624 out of 730 Louisiana elementary schools in 2022-2023 to 598 out of 666 in 2024-2025, with a 1-star rating.
Linwood Public Charter School faces significant academic challenges, with proficiency rates in both Mathematics and English Language Arts (ELA) that are substantially lower than the state averages across all grade levels. For example, in the 2024-2025 school year, the school's Mathematics proficiency rate was 34%, compared to the state average of 60%, and its ELA proficiency rate was 56%, compared to the state average of 70%. Additionally, the school has a high dropout rate of 3.3% and a chronic absenteeism rate of 24.6%, which may contribute to its low academic performance.
The school's high free/reduced lunch rate of 90.27% suggests that the majority of its students come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, which can be a significant factor in the observed achievement gaps. The school's student-teacher ratio of 20.7 in the 2023-2024 school year is also noteworthy. Addressing these challenges, including the declining performance, significant achievement gaps, high poverty levels, and chronic absenteeism, should be a priority for the school and the Recovery School District-LDE to improve student outcomes.
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