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Bullion Primary School
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2023-24 . % Mastery+What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 32. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 57% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 16 points, placing it in Louisiana's top 10%.
About Bullion Primary School
Bullion Primary School operates as a mid-tier K-5 school in Prairieville, Louisiana, overseen by Ascension Parish. Current enrollment sits at 586 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 29% larger than the state mean of about 453.
Ascension Parish runs 32 schools in total, collectively educating 23,743 students. Bullion Primary School is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, Bullion Primary School shows that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 21% Black, 10% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 7% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.
On the resource side, The school lists 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 38% of students at Bullion Primary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Ascension Parish's rate of about 52%.
With demographic context factored in, Bullion Primary School sits in the top 10% of Louisiana schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 57.1%; actual is 72.7%, +15.6 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Ascension Parish indicate median household earnings sit near $91,549, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Ascension Parish runs 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,743 students), of which Bullion Primary School is one.
The closest other public school is Oak Grove Primary School, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Bullion Primary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 61.8%.
The school occupies a suburban site.
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