Summary:
The St. Landry Primary School Incl. district is a single-school district serving 315 students in grades K-7 at St. Landry Charter School, a high-poverty elementary school where over 91% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch.
St. Landry Charter School has consistently received a 1-star rating over the past three years and ranks in the 19th percentile statewide. The school's strongest subject is English Language Arts (ELA), with 55% of students proficient, which is the only subject approaching the state average. The most notable bright spot is 6th-grade mathematics, where 74% of students are proficient—9 percentage points above the state average—suggesting a particularly effective teacher or program at that grade level. However, this success does not carry over to other grades; 8th-grade math proficiency is only 15%, and overall math proficiency is just 31%. Social Studies is the school's weakest area, with only 26% of students proficient across all tested grades, a full 29 points below the state average.
Despite extreme poverty, the school's chronic absenteeism rate of 18.1% is actually better than the state average of 22.5%, indicating that attendance is not the primary driver of low scores. The school's small enrollment makes its overall ranking volatile, as the performance of a single cohort can significantly swing results from year to year. For parents, the key takeaway is that while St. Landry Charter School faces significant challenges, the 6th-grade math success proves that high achievement is possible with the right strategies. The most urgent areas for improvement are mathematics outside of 6th grade and Social Studies across all grade levels.
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