Grant Parish

The Grant Parish school district in Louisiana consists of 8 schools, including 4 elementary schools, 1 middle school, 2 high schools, and 1 alternative high school. The district serves students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade and faces some academic challenges, with significant disparities in performance between the top-performing and lowest-performing schools.

Two elementary schools, Pollock Elementary School and South Grant Elementary School, stand out with over 70% proficiency in both math and English language arts on LEAP tests, as well as relatively high student-teacher ratios and lower rates of free/reduced lunch recipients compared to other elementary schools in the district. At the high school level, Grant High School has the highest graduation rate (83.2%) and lowest dropout rate (3.3%), while Georgetown High School, an alternative high school, excels with exceptional performance on LEAP tests.

However, the data also reveals significant disparities in academic performance across the district, with a potential correlation between socioeconomic status and student achievement. Schools with higher rates of free/reduced lunch recipients, such as Colfax Elementary School, tend to have the lowest test scores. Additionally, the consistently high chronic absenteeism rate of 24.6% across all schools in the district may be a contributing factor to the overall academic challenges faced by the Grant Parish school system.