Summary:
Zip code 70310 is home to a single elementary school, The MAX Charter School, which serves grades 1 through 8 with a total enrollment of 100 students and operates as its own independent The MAX Charter School district.
The MAX Charter School is a small, high-poverty school where 67% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, and it has a very favorable student-teacher ratio of 9:1. Despite this small class size advantage, the school is a significant negative standout compared to state averages. Its state ranking is exceptionally low, placing in the bottom 4% of Louisiana schools (rank 661 out of 690) for the 2025-2026 school year, a consistent trend over the past three years. Academic proficiency rates are dramatically lower than the state average across almost all grade levels, particularly in Mathematics and Social Studies. For example, only 7% of 3rd and 6th graders are proficient in Social Studies, compared to the state average of 49%. Overall ELA proficiency is 41% (state: 70%), and overall Social Studies proficiency is 18% (state: 55%).
There is one notable bright spot: 5th-grade students achieved a 78% proficiency rate in ELA for the 2025-2026 school year, outperforming the state average of 73%. Additionally, the school's chronic absenteeism rate of 15.8% is better than the state average of 22.5%, indicating students are attending school regularly. However, the data paints a clear picture of a school in need of substantial intervention, particularly in Mathematics and Social Studies, where proficiency rates for individual grades range from a low of 14% to a high of only 33%. The school's consistent bottom-tier ranking over three consecutive years suggests this is a persistent pattern of underperformance rather than a one-year anomaly.
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