English Language Arts
62.0%
State avg 41.8%
District avg 50.7%
County avg 50.7%
+10.0pp since 2022-23
District avg 50.7%
County avg 50.7%
+10.0pp since 2022-23
Test scores
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LEAP 2025, SY 2023-24
All grades, all students. % Mastery+.Mathematics
52.0%
State avg 32.1%
District avg 34.9%
County avg 34.9%
+6.0pp since 2022-23
District avg 34.9%
County avg 34.9%
+6.0pp since 2022-23
Science
39.0%
State avg 28.0%
District avg 33.5%
County avg 33.5%
+6.0pp since 2022-23
District avg 33.5%
County avg 33.5%
+6.0pp since 2022-23
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 52 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 39 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 10 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 6 points and science scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of LA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
51.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.8%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 36% 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 15 points, placing it in Louisiana's top 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. Simpson Louisiana avgEnglish Language Arts
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2023-24 | 62.0% | 50.7% | 50.7% | 41.8% |
| SY 2022-23 | 52.0% | 49.6% | 49.6% | 41.0% |
Mathematics
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2023-24 | 52.0% | 34.9% | 34.9% | 32.1% |
| SY 2022-23 | 46.0% | 36.3% | 36.3% | 32.5% |
Science
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2023-24 | 39.0% | 33.5% | 33.5% | 28.0% |
| SY 2022-23 | 33.0% | 33.9% | 33.9% | 28.2% |
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 62.0% mean for English Language Arts at Simpson High School?
It means about 62.0 percent of students tested at Simpson High 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.