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BATON ROUGE – The Louisiana Department of Education announced the release of new LEAP 2025 data. For the last two school years, Louisiana faced extraordinary challenges ranging from catastrophic hurricanes to a global pandemic.

“In the face of immense adversity, students, teachers, administrators and parents showed unwavering resiliency, demonstrating a deep commitment to both safety and learning,” said State Superintendent of Education Dr. Cade Brumley. “This LEAP 2025 data will be invaluable in guiding our instructional, policy and resource allocation decisions as we recover and accelerate from this unprecedented interruption to student learning.”

Dr. Brumley will address this information and future recovery and acceleration plans at a press conference at 9 a.m. August 11 at the Knock Knock Children’s Museum in Baton Rouge.

 

LEAP 2025 Results

• Grades 3-8
• From 2019 to 2021, the number of students scoring Mastery or above saw a decrease of five percentage points. This decrease was felt across all grade levels, content areas and student subgroups.
• Simultaneously, learning gaps deepened, as evidenced by a five percentage point increase in the number of students scoring Unsatisfactory. This disproportionately impacted:
• Economically disadvantaged students
• Students in the earlier tested grades (e.g., grades 3 and 4)
• Scores earned in mathematics
• Grades 9-12
• Across all subjects, the number of students scoring Mastery and above declined by five percentage points since 2019.
• In each individual subject, the number of students scoring Mastery and above has decreased since 2019.
• Algebra I saw the greatest decline (negative-nine percentage points) from 2019 – 2021, and English II had the smallest decline (negative-two percentage points).

 

 

Recovery Programs

• Since the beginning of the pandemic, LDOE provided direct guidance and support to school systems, aiming to improve academic achievement and life outcomes for students. These initiatives included, but were not limited to: Reading Revival, ‘Accelerate’ tutoring, New approaches to summer learning, and a $4 billion grant focused on accelerating student learning & educator development.

2020 Cohort Graduation Rate

 

Due to COVID-19, student seat time and assessment requirements were waived beginning March 13, 2020 through the end of the 2019-2020 school year. As a result, data from the 2019-2020 school year is not directly comparable to results from prior or future school years and should be interpreted with caution, especially when making comparisons with results from other school years.

 

• The cohort graduation rate increased to 84.0, up 3.9 percentage points from 80.1 in 2019 and up 11.7 percentage points from 72.3 in 2012.
• Cohort graduation rates for all student groups increased from 2019.
• English Learners had the most growth in the short term (from 2019-2020) increasing by +7.2.
• Students with disabilities showed growth in both the long- and short-term, with the most growth happening over the long-term from 2012 (+38.3). From 2019, students graduating with their cohort grew (+6.6).

 

Next Steps

 

School systems have already begun sending student reports for LEAP 2025 ELA, math, science and social studies to families and students, along with a copy of the Parent Guide to the LEAP 2025 Student Reports. Translated versions of the Parent Guide are available in the Family Support Toolbox library on the Department’s website.

 

School systems will also use LEAP 2025 results as one source of information with which to design data-driven supports and targeted interventions for students. Under state law, students, who have not met proficiency standards, must receive intensive support over the summer or throughout the year.

 

About the LEAP 2025 Assessments

 

LEAP 2025 includes assessments of ELA, math, science and social studies for grades 3-12. The tests measure the knowledge and skills defined by the state’s content standards for each grade. Student scores are reported on five levels: Unsatisfactory, Approaching Basic, Basic, Mastery or Advanced. Students scoring Mastery and Advanced are considered proficient, or ready for the next grade level.

 

LEAP 2025 assessments have evolved as the state’s standards have been revised to more accurately reflect what knowledge and skills students need to be successful.

 

See results for grades 3-8 and grades 9-12.