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Bluff Middle School · Prairieville, LA
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LEAP 2025, SY 2023-24

All grades, all students. % Mastery+.
English Language Arts
78.0%
State avg 41.8%
District avg 61.2%
County avg 61.2%
+2.0pp since 2022-23
Mathematics
62.0%
State avg 32.1%
District avg 48.5%
County avg 48.5%
+2.0pp since 2022-23
Science
62.0%
State avg 28.0%
District avg 44.3%
County avg 44.3%
+3.0pp since 2022-23

What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 62 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 62 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42, 32, and 28. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 2 points and science scores are up about 3 points.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
67.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.8%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.5pp
above demographic expectation

What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Louisiana's top nor bottom 10%.

BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →

2-year history

All grades, all students. Bluff   Louisiana avg

English Language Arts

41762022-2342782023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2478.0%61.2%61.2%41.8%
SY 2022-2376.0%59.0%59.0%41.0%

Mathematics

32602022-2332622023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2462.0%48.5%48.5%32.1%
SY 2022-2360.0%49.6%49.6%32.5%

Science

28592022-2328622023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2462.0%44.3%44.3%28.0%
SY 2022-2359.0%43.3%43.3%28.2%

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How to read these scores

What is LEAP 2025?
LEAP 2025 is the statewide standardized test administered by Louisiana public schools.
What does "% Mastery+" mean?
It is the share of students at the school who performed at grade level or above on the test, summed across the top two of four performance levels. A higher number is better.
What does 78.0% mean for English Language Arts at Bluff Middle School?
It means about 78.0 percent of students tested at Bluff Middle School performed at grade level or above on the LEAP 2025 English Language Arts test in 2023-24. The statewide average for Louisiana that year was 41.8%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Louisiana, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Louisiana Department of Education, LEAP 2025 Mastery Summary. School-level grades 3-8 from the LDOE Test Results downloads. Headline metric is the cumulative "Mastery + Advanced" rate (top 2 of 5 LEAP 2025 levels: Unsatisfactory / Approaching Basic / Basic / Mastery / Advanced).
How often is it updated?
LEAP 2025 is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.

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