REPORT TO THE HOUSE AND SENATE COMMITTEES ON EDUCATION, THE JOINT LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE ON THE BUDGET OF THE LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE AND THE LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE REPORT ON THE LOUISIANA SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ACCORDING TO REQUIREMENTS UNDER R.S. 17: 4024 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 2015-2016 school year, more than 7100 students from 31 parishes enrolled in a school through the Louisiana Scholarship Program. To be eligible to receive a Scholarship award, new students 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 $5,800 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] • Aggregate test result data for the scholarship recipients enrolled in each participating school; [Appendices A and B] • 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] • Rate at which all participating schools admit and serve students with special education needs; [Appendix A] and • Percentage of parents or legal guardians of scholarship recipients who are satisfied with the participating school. [Appendix D] 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 2014-15 to the first-quarter of 2015-16 APPENDICES Appendix A: Louisiana Scholarship Program Enrollment Data by School Scholarship program student performance rates outlined in the table below equals the overall percent of students that achieved a proficiency rating of “Basic” and above on 3rd – 8th grade LEAP/iLEAP exams, or ratings of “Good” and “Excellent” on high school End-of-Course exams. 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 2015-16 Total 2015-16 Total 2015-16 Percent 2015-16 LSP House Senate 2015-16 LSP 2015-16 K-12 Student Scholarship (%) Scholarship Student District District Retention LSP Enrollment Enrollment Enrollment Performance Rate SWD Alexandria Country Day 450 1 0% ~ District 25, District 29, 100% ~ School Lance Harris Jay Luneau Alfred Booker, Jr. 11 6 55% ~ District 26, District 29, 83.3% ~ Academy Jeff Hall Jay Luneau Angles Academy 64 46 72% 27.4% District 61, District 14, 76.1% 6.5% Denise Yvonne Marcelle Dorsey- Colomb Annunciation School 147 28 19% ~ District 75, District 12, 96.4% <5% Malinda Beth Mizell White Ascension Christian 423 8 2% ~ District 88, District 18, 75.0% ~ School Johnny Eddie Berthelot Lambert Site Name 2015-16 Total 2015-16 Total 2015-16 Percent 2015-16 LSP House Senate 2015-16 LSP 2015-16 K-12 Student Scholarship (%) Scholarship Student District District Retention LSP Enrollment Enrollment Enrollment Performance Rate SWD Ascension Diocesan 510 61 12% 57.8% District 58, District 2, 86.4% <5% Regional School Ed Price Vacant Ascension of Our Lord 271 58 21% 60.3% District 57, District 19, 89.7% 8.6% School Randall Gary Smith Gaines Bishop McManus School 258 192 74% 42.0% District 100, District 3, 58.3% <5% John J.P. Morrell Bagneris Boutte Christian 255 97 38% 60.6% District 56, District 19, 78.1% <5% Academy Greg Miller Gary Smith Catholic Elementary 443 27 6% 30.6% District 18, District 17, 95.5% 7.4% School of Pointe Coupee Major Rick Ward Thibaut Catholic High of Pointe 307 13 4% 26.9% District 18, District 17, 90.9% 7.7% Coupee Major Rick Ward Thibaut Cedarwood School 287 4 1% ~ District 89, District 11, 100% ~ Reid Falconer Jack Donahue Central Catholic School 222 11 5% ≤1% District 51, District 21, 88.9% 9.1% Beryl Bret Allain Amedee Claiborne Christian 389 51 13% 75.7% District 15, District 35, 82.4% <5% School Frank Jim Fannin Hoffmann Dreamkeepers Academy 92 21 23% ~ District 7, District 38, 71.4% <5% Larry Bagley John Milkovich Ecole Bilingue de la 163 6 4% ~ District 98, District 5, 100% ~ Nouvelle-Orleans Neil Karen Abramson Carter Peterson Site Name 2015-16 Total 2015-16 Total 2015-16 Percent 2015-16 LSP House Senate 2015-16 LSP 2015-16 K-12 Student Scholarship (%) Scholarship Student District District Retention LSP Enrollment Enrollment Enrollment Performance Rate SWD Evangel Christian 729 96 13% 41.4% District 4, District 38, 77.4% <5% Academy Cedric John Glover Milkovich Faith Lutheran School 78 29 37% ~ District 78, District 10, 79.3% <5% Kirk Talbot Danny Martiny Family Community 529 189 36% 51.0% District 20, District 32, 77.6% <5% Christian School Steve Pylant Neil Riser Family Worship Christian 212 115 54% 67.7% District 40, District 24, 87.0% <5% Academy Dustin Miller Gerald Boudreaux Gardere Community 81 46 57% 60.0% District 70, District 14, 78.3% <5% Christian School Franklin Foil Yvonne Dorsey- Colomb Gethsemane Christian 38 37 97% 23.9% District 44, District 24, 54.1% <5% Academy Vincent Gerald Pierre Boudreaux Good Shepherd Nativity 103 102 99% 69.6% District 93, District 5, 74.2% <5% Mission School Helena Karen Moreno Carter Peterson Greater Baton Rouge 154 69 45% 37.8% District 66, District 6, 59.7% 15.9% Hope Academy Rick Bodi White Edmonds Greater Mt. Olive 41 39 95% N/A District 61, District 14, 0% <5% Christian Academy Denise Yvonne [Temporarily closed for Marcelle Dorsey- 2016-17 school year due Colomb Holy Family Catholic 233 110 47% 44.2% District 44, District 24, 84.6% <5% School Vincent Gerald Pierre Boudreaux Site Name 2015-16 Total 2015-16 Total 2015-16 Percent 2015-16 LSP House Senate 2015-16 LSP 2015-16 K-12 Student Scholarship (%) Scholarship Student District District Retention LSP Enrollment Enrollment Enrollment Performance Rate SWD Holy Family School 372 14 4% ~ District 29, District 2, 100% <5% Edmond Vacant Jordan Holy Ghost School 716 28 4% 40.5% District 86, District 12, 74.1% <5% Chris Beth Mizell Broadwater Holy Rosary Academy 79 28 35% 21.4% District 97, District 4, 72.7% 14.3% Joseph Bouie Wesley Bishop Holy Rosary High School 79 17 22% <5% District 98, District 5, 52.9% <5% Neil Karen Abramson Carter Peterson Holy Rosary School 258 13 5% ~ District 54, District 20, 92.3% <5% Jerry "Truck" Norby Gisclair Chabert Holy Savior Menard 526 54 10% 38.8% District 25, District 31, 81.5% <5% Central High School Lance Harris Gerald Long Holy Savior School 170 21 12% ~ District 54, District 20, 95.2% <5% Jerry "Truck" Norby Gisclair Chabert Hosanna Christian 369 297 80% 59.3% District 69, District 16, 81.0% <5% Academy Paula Davis Dan Claitor Immaculate Heart of 138 29 21% 43.6% District 44, District 24, 0% <5% Mary School [Closed Vincent Gerald following 2015-16 SY] Pierre Boudreaux Jehovah-Jireh Christian 147 70 48% 23.8% District 61, District 15, 90% <5% Academy Denise Regina Marcelle Barrow Jewish Community Day 35 7 20% ~ District 94, District 9, 100% ~ School Stephanie Conrad Hilferty Appel Site Name 2015-16 Total 2015-16 Total 2015-16 Percent 2015-16 LSP House Senate 2015-16 LSP 2015-16 K-12 Student Scholarship (%) Scholarship Student District District Retention LSP Enrollment Enrollment Enrollment Performance Rate SWD John Paul The Great 271 42 15% 42.6% District 44, District 24, 92.7% <5% Academy Vincent Gerald Pierre Boudreaux Kidz View Learning 38 11 29% N/A District 99, District 4, 18.2% <5% Academy Jimmy Harris Wesley Bishop Life of Christ Christian 33 18 55% 19.1% District 93, District 5, 43.8% <5% Academy/Alternative Helena Karen Moreno Carter Light City Christian 51 46 90% 31.5% District 99, District 3, 58.7% <5% Academy Jimmy Harris J.P. Morrell Lighthouse Christian 80 55 69% 51.5% District 49, District 26, 79.6% 5.5% Preparatory School Blake Miguez Jonathan Perry Living Word Academy 43 22 51% N/A District 3, District 39, 54.5% <5% Barbara Greg Norton Tarver Louisiana New School 21 10 48% ~ District 67, District 14, 66.7% <5% Academy Pat Smith Yvonne Dorsey- Colomb Lutheran High School 113 84 74% 54.2% District 94, District 9, 77.0% <5% Stephanie Conrad Hilferty Appel Maria Immacolata 203 39 19% 22.2% District 53, District 20, 89.7% <5% School Tanner Norby Magee Chabert Mater Dolorosa School 168 38 23% 47.1% District 72, District 12, 94.6% <5% Robby Carter Beth Mizell McKinney Byrd 4 1 25% ~ District 3, District 39, 100% ~ Academy, Inc.