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Roseland Montessori
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2023-24 . % Mastery+What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 32. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Roseland Montessori
Roseland Montessori is an elementary school of reasonably sized scale in Roseland, Louisiana, run under Tangipahoa Parish, serveing 412 students in grades pre-K through 8.
Tangipahoa Parish comprises 32 schools with combined enrollment of 19,077 students; Roseland Montessori is among them.
On demographics, Roseland Montessori reports that the most-represented group is Black (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 41% White, 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.
Looking at school resources, Roseland Montessori reports 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
With demographic context factored in, Roseland Montessori performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.8%, the actual is 23.7%, a residual of -7.1 points.
Across the wider county, census data for Tangipahoa Parish shows the typical household earns roughly $56,760 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Tangipahoa Parish's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,077 students), Roseland Montessori is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Amite Westside Middle Magnet, roughly 2.8 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Roseland Montessori ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 16.6%.
Roseland Montessori operates from a countryside location.
Five-year trend. Roseland Montessori's enrollment has decreased 11% since 2018, when it stood at 465 (now 412). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 57% to 41%. Class-load math has fell: from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.
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Tangipahoa Parish at a glance
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