By Super User on Wednesday, 28 August 2019
Category: Press Releases

NOLA Public Schools Outperforms State on Student Progress

NEW ORLEANS - (August 28, 2019) The Louisiana Department of Education released statewide progress data results and for the second year in a row NOLA Public schools are outperforming statewide averages for growth, specifically across all four sub-groups reported by the state. The announcement comes after the LDOE released their annual statewide progress data.

“Our school system is making meaningful progress towards all of our students mastering essential skills in English Language Arts and Math. We should all be very proud of the progress being made and that we continue to outperform the state and our peer districts on the number of students making top growth, year over year.” said NOLA-PS Superintendent of Schools Dr. Henderson Lewis, Jr. “I want to thank our local educators for their hard work and commitment to moving all of our students ahead, especially those that have historically been underserved across our state.”

The 2019 student progress results bring additional context to the 2019 LEAP 2025 assessment results and show as a district, that:

  • For the second year in a row, NOLA public school students met or exceeded the both the state and other large school districts’ top growth rate in math and English Language Arts (ELA).

School System 2019 % Top Growth in ELA 2019 % Top Growth in Math
Orleans Parish 47% 46%
Louisiana Statewide 47% 44%

• For the second year in a row, NOLA Public Schools are exceeding Louisiana and similar parishes in top growth for historically disadvantaged students, including African-American and Students with Disabilities. This means more students in NOLA Public Schools who are African-American, Economically Disadvantaged, English Language Learners and have disabilities are on track to achieve grade-level expectations by 8th and 10th grades than students in these other large districts and across Louisiana.

2019 % Top Growth, By School System
Subgroup Orleans Parish Louisiana Statewide East Baton Rouge Parish (includes RSD) Jefferson Parish Caddo Parish
Black or African-American 45% 43% 44% 42% 40%
Econ. Disadvantaged 45% 44% 44% 44% 40%
English Language Learner 46% 45% 43% 42% 42%
Students with Disabilities 43% 42% 43% 39% 41%

  • NOLA Public Schools had six schools identified as “Outstanding Schools” from across the state based upon their impact helping students grow year over year.

NOLA Public Schools Identified as "Outstanding Schools" for Student Progress
Benjamin Franklin High School
Dwight D. Eisenhower Charter School
Lake Forest Charter School
Paul Habans Charter School
McDonogh 42 Charter School
Andrew H. Wilson Charter School

• NOLA Public Schools has 26 schools exceed the state’s rate of top growth in both ELA and Math.


NOLA Public Schools that Exceeded State's Top Growth Rate in Math and ELA
School Name ELA (Grades 3-8, English I & II) 2019 Top Growth Math (Grades 3-8, Alegebra I & Geometry) 2019 Top Growth
Homer A. Plessy Community School 60 48
Paul Habans Charter School 59 63
ReNEW Dolores T. Aaron Elementary 50 46
Mildred Osborne Charter School 51 52
Akili Academy of New Orleans 54 45
Livingston Collegiate Academy 48 50
Esperanza Charter School 52 54
Martin Behrman Charter Acad of Creative Arts & Sci 51 46
KIPP Morial 52 51
KIPP Renaissance 52 50
KIPP Leadership 56 46
Samuel J. Green Charter School 52 57
Arthur Ashe Charter School 48 49
Phillis Wheatley Community School 49 48
Langston Hughes Charter Academy 51 47
Audubon Charter School 50 46
Einstein Charter School at Village De L'Est 54 48
Benjamin Franklin High school 74 68
Alice M Harte Elementary Charter School 56 59
Lusher Charter School 56 54
Lake Forest Elementary Charter School 63 64
Wilson Charter School 54 65
Einstein Charter High School at Sarah Towles Reed 48 55
Einstein Charter Middle School at Sarah Towles Reed 48 45
McDonogh 42 Charter School 56 66

The student progress measure will make up 25 percent of an elementary or middle school's overall performance score and 12.5 percent of a high school's overall performance score.

Click here to learn more about 2019 LEAP 2025 Student Progress.

To access detailed breakdowns of the statewide data, visit the PK-8 and High School Performance libraries.

Media Contact:

Tania Dall, NOLA-PS Director of Communications, (504) 206-6611, communications@opsb.us

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ABOUT NOLA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: NOLA Public Schools (NOLA-PS) is the public school district for Orleans Parish, which includes the district’s elected school board, known as the Orleans Parish School Board and the district’s administration led by NOLA Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Henderson Lewis, Jr. NOLA Public Schools currently oversees 78 public schools.

For more information, visit www.nolapublicschools.com. For updates, follow NOLA Public Schools on Facebook @NOLAPublicSchools, Instagram @nolaps and Twitter @NOLAPSchools.

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