LEAP 2025, SY 2023-24
All grades, all students. % Mastery+.English Language Arts
24.0%
State avg 41.8%
District avg 36.3%
County avg 36.3%
-1.0pp since 2022-23
Mathematics
15.0%
State avg 32.1%
District avg 26.2%
County avg 26.2%
+1.0pp since 2022-23
Science
15.0%
State avg 28.0%
District avg 25.6%
County avg 25.6%
+1.0pp since 2022-23
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 15 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 15 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 down about 1 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 1 points and science scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of LA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
18.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.3%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-29.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 47% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual.
How this is calculated →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 24.0% mean for English Language Arts at J.D. Meisler Middle School?
It means about 24.0 percent of students tested at J.D. Meisler 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.
