Summary:
This analysis focuses on a single school, GEO Prep Baker, an elementary school in Baker, Louisiana, serving grades Kindergarten through 3rd grade with 121 students enrolled for the 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 school years.
GEO Prep Baker shows a notable strength in English Language Arts (ELA), with an overall proficiency rate of 64% in 2025-2026, close to the state average of 70%. The school actually exceeds the state average in several specific grades, including 3rd grade (67% vs. 64%), 5th grade (77% vs. 73%), and 7th grade (73% vs. 71%). However, the school faces a significant challenge in Social Studies, where the overall proficiency rate of 34% is 21 points below the state average of 55%, a gap that persists across all tested grades. In Mathematics, the school showed a strong year-over-year improvement, with the "All Grades" proficiency rate jumping from 49% in 2024-2025 to 62% in 2025-2026, actually exceeding the state average of 60% in the latter year. The school is ranked 468th out of 690 schools in Louisiana, placing it in the 32nd percentile with a 2-star rating.
One interesting finding is that despite having 81.82% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, classifying it as a high-poverty school, GEO Prep Baker has a chronic absenteeism rate of 20.5%, which is below the state average of 22.5%. This suggests effective school-level engagement and attendance initiatives. Another notable data point is a discrepancy: the school is listed as serving grades K-3, yet test score data includes results for 4th through 8th grades, indicating a possible expansion of grade offerings or a data configuration issue that should be clarified before making definitive conclusions about upper-grade performance. The student-teacher ratio is 20.1:1.
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