2017-2018 Annual Report on the Louisiana Scholarship Program
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REPORT TO THE LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE 2017-2018 ANNUAL REPORT ON THE LOUISIANA SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM FROM THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION INTRODUCTION Established by the Louisiana Legislature in 2008 in New Orleans and expanded statewide in 2012, the Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP) is designed to provide students with additional opportunities to attend the school of their choice. Student applicants are eligible to receive state-funded Scholarships to enroll in participating nonpublic schools or high-performing public schools. During the 2017-2018 school year, more than 6,900 students from 48 districts enrolled in a school through the Louisiana Scholarship Program. To be eligible for the Louisiana Scholarship Program, a student must be a resident of Louisiana, be entering Kindergarten or have attended a Louisiana public school with a C, D, or F letter grade the previous year, and have a total family household income that does not exceed 250% of the federal poverty guidelines. Scholarship awards average approximately $6,100 per student and cover all tuition and mandatory school fees. Students participating in the Louisiana Scholarship Program are granted admission through a lottery process and are required to take all state assessments. POLICY REQUIREMENTS Louisiana Revised Statute 17:4024 and BESE Bulletin 133 require that the Louisiana Department of Education annually report the following data to the Legislature related to the Louisiana Scholarship Program: • Total number of students receiving scholarships [Appendix A]; • All schools participating in the program [Appendix A]; • All schools participating in the program by legislative district; the total enrollment of each participating school, the number of scholarship recipients enrolled in each school, and the percentage of the total enrollment of each school represented by scholarship recipients [Appendix A]; and • Aggregate test result data for the scholarship recipients enrolled in each participating school [Appendices A and B]. R.S. 17:4015 further requires the Department to annually publish the following information for all schools participating in the program: • All public schools with a letter grade of "C", "D", or "F", or any variation thereof [Appendix C]; • Rate at which scholarship recipients finish the highest grade level offered at a participating school, by entering cohort1; • Retention rate2 for scholarship recipients [Appendix A]; and • Rate at which all participating schools admit and serve students with special education needs [Appendix A]. 1 Due to the nature of data collected from Scholarship schools, this data is not reportable 2 Retention rate is defined as percent of scholarship students in non-terminal grades who remained enrolled in the same school from the first quarter of 2017- 2018 to the first-quarter of 2018-2019 • Percentage of parents or legal guardians of scholarship recipients who are satisfied with the participating school [Appendix D]. BESE additionally requires annual reporting of the rate at which all participating schools admit and serve students with special education needs [Appendix A]. APPENDICES Appendix A: Louisiana Scholarship Program Enrollment Data by School Scholarship program student performance rates are outlined in the table below. Student performance (Basic and Above) equals the overall percent of students that earned an achievement level of “Advanced,” “Mastery,” or “Basic” on LEAP 2025 assessments and/or “Good” or “Excellent” on end-of-course assessments. Student performance (Mastery and Above) equals the overall percent of students that earned an achievement level of “Advanced” or “Mastery” on LEAP 2025 assessments and/or “Good” or “Excellent” on end-of-course assessments. State assessment results of Mastery and Above are considered proficient. The Louisiana Department of Education has modified and/or suppressed data reported to protect the privacy of students in compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) codified at 20 U.S.C. 1232g. The strategies used to protect privacy vary and may include rounding or other techniques but do not substantially affect the general usefulness of the data. Because of the privacy protections numerical and percentage totals may not add precisely to the sum of the row or column to which the total refers. The ~ symbol indicates statistically unreliable data (subgroups of fewer than 10 students). Site Name 2017-2018 2017-2018 2017-2018 2017-2018 2017-2018 House Senate 2017-2018 2017- Total K-12 Total Percent (%) LSP Student LSP Student District District LSP 2018 Student Scholarship Scholarship Performance Performance Retention LSP Enrollment Enrollment Enrollment (Basic and (Mastery and Rate SWD Above) Above) Rate Alexandria Country 350 3 1% N/A N/A District 25 District 29 66.7% ~ Day School Angles Academy 39 29 74% 14.9% 4.5% District 61 District 14 57.1% <5% Annunciation School 103 29 28% 50.0% 14.6% District 75 District 12 82.8% <5% Ascension Christian 439 5 1% ~ ~ District 88 District 18 100.0% ~ School Site Name 2017-2018 2017-2018 2017-2018 2017-2018 2017-2018 House Senate 2017-2018 2017- Total K-12 Total Percent (%) LSP Student LSP Student District District LSP 2018 Student Scholarship Scholarship Performance Performance Retention LSP Enrollment Enrollment Enrollment (Basic and (Mastery and Rate SWD Above) Above) Rate Ascension Diocesan 444 49 11% 39.6% 14.4% District 58 District 2 95.7% <5% Regional School Ascension of Our Lord 209 73 35% 62.4% 20.5% District 57 District 19 81.2% <5% School Bishop McManus 95 60 63% 42.6% 17.0% District District 3 86.8% <5% School 100 Boutte Christian 147 94 64% 54.4% 19.3% District 56 District 19 64.4% <5% Academy Brighter Horizon 81 45 56% 30.7% 13.3% District 61 District 15 77.8% <5% School of Baton Rouge Catholic Elementary 358 23 6% 39.2% 19.6% District 18 District 17 80.0% <5% School of Pointe Coupee Catholic High of Pointe 304 9 3% ~ ~ District 18 District 17 77.8% ~ Coupee Cedarwood School 137 5 4% ~ ~ District 89 District 11 100.0% ~ Central Catholic School 223 6 3% ~ ~ District 51 District 21 100.0% ~ Children's College 4 2 50% N/A N/A District 90 District 1 0.0% ~ Site Name 2017-2018 2017-2018 2017-2018 2017-2018 2017-2018 House Senate 2017-2018 2017- Total K-12 Total Percent (%) LSP Student LSP Student District District LSP 2018 Student Scholarship Scholarship Performance Performance Retention LSP Enrollment Enrollment Enrollment (Basic and (Mastery and Rate SWD Above) Above) Rate Claiborne Christian 289 50 17% 67.5% 33.7% District 15 District 35 76.0% <5% School Crescent City Christian 293 50 17% 45.7% 16.0% District 80 District 9 89.6% 6.0% School Diocese of Baton 45 11 24% ~ ~ District 68 District 16 72.7% 36.4% Rouge Special Education Program Ecole Bilingue de la 148 7 5% ~ ~ District 98 District 5 80.0% ~ Nouvelle-Orleans Emmanuel SDA School 25 16 64% ~ ~ District 72 District 12 60.0% 6.3% Evangel Christian 597 48 8% 35.6% 13.6% District 4 District 38 93.6% <5% Academy Faith Lutheran School 82 53 65% 42.7% 13.5% District 78 District 10 74.5% <5% Family Community 448 180 40% 45.1% 13.8% District 20 District 32 92.0% <5% Christian School Family Worship 188 152 81% 61.9% 23.8% District 40 District 24 80.9% <5% Christian Academy Gardere Community 79 50 63% 54.5% 33.3% District 70 District 14 76.0% <5% Christian School Site Name 2017-2018 2017-2018 2017-2018 2017-2018 2017-2018 House Senate 2017-2018 2017- Total K-12 Total Percent (%) LSP Student LSP Student District District LSP 2018 Student Scholarship Scholarship Performance Performance Retention LSP Enrollment Enrollment Enrollment (Basic and (Mastery and Rate SWD Above) Above) Rate Gethsemane Christian 40 20 50% 36.5% 5.8% District 44 District 24 85.0% <5% Academy Good Shepherd 154 118 77% 47.2% 14.8% District 93 District 5 86.0% <5% Nativity Mission School Greater Baton Rouge 128 59 46% 14.9% 1.1% District 66 District 6 71.2% 10.2% Hope Academy Holy Family Catholic 221 136 62% 41.1% 15.2% District 44 District 24 92.5% <5% School Holy Family School 361 18 5% 60.6% 27.3% District 29 District 2 94.4% <5% Holy Ghost School 569 16 3% ~ ~ District 86 District 12 86.7% <5% Holy Rosary Academy 55 33 60% 3.8% ≤1% District 97 District 4 88.0% <5% Holy Rosary High 66 12 18% ~ ~ District 98 District 5 83.3% <5% School Holy Rosary School 166 11 7% 36.7% 6.7% District 54 District 20 36.4% <5% Holy Savior Menard 481 42 9% 45.3% 28.0% District 25 District 31 86.5% <5% Central High School Site Name 2017-2018 2017-2018 2017-2018 2017-2018 2017-2018 House Senate 2017-2018 2017- Total K-12 Total Percent (%) LSP Student LSP Student District District LSP 2018 Student Scholarship Scholarship Performance Performance Retention LSP Enrollment Enrollment Enrollment (Basic and (Mastery and Rate SWD Above) Above) Rate Holy Savior School 101 19 19% 53.3% 36.7% District 54 District 20 77.8% 5.3% Hosanna Christian 463 404 87% 42.5% 15.6% District 69 District 16 81.6% <5% Academy Jehovah-Jireh Christian 130 51 39% 5.9% ≤1% District 61 District 15 93.6% <5% Academy Jewish Community Day 35 6 17% ~ ~ District 94 District 9 100.0% ~ School John Paul The Great 273 46 17% 44.4% 19.4% District 44 District 24 82.2% <5% Academy Kidz View Learning 0 5 N/A3 N/A N/A District 99 District 4 0.0% ~ Academy Lakeside Christian 46 5 11% ~ ~ District 90 District 1 80.0% ~ Academy Life of Christ Christian 29 12 41% ~ ~ District 93 District 5 80.0% <5% Academy/Alternative Light City Christian 31 22 71% 38.2% 12.7% District 99 District 3 81.8% <5% Academy 3 The Quarter 1 enrollment count took place prior to the 2017-2018 total school enrollment count.