New Orleans Recovery School District, ACT Outcomes, and Falling Through the Cracks
This post includes information on Louisiana’s Class of 2015 ACT scoring outcomes and is chiefly focused upon the Recovery School District (RSD) in New Orleans. It is as much a post about who in RSD is taking as it is about who is not.
According to the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) district enrollment counts for February 2015, Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB) enrollment is 13,173, and New Orleans RSD enrollment at 30,448.
In July 2015, Jessica Williams of Nola.com published information about the Louisiana’s Class of 2015 district ACT composite scores. In that article, Williams included a search engine for ACT composites related to schools and districts. Specifically, Williams’ search engine allows one to look up some schools/districts to see 1) the number of seniors who took the ACT, 2) the percentage of those seniors who scored at or above 20 on the ACT, and 3) the percentage of seniors who scored at or above 18 on the ACT.
According to Williams’ search engine, 1065 Class of 2015 seniors took the ACT; 21.1 percent scored 20+, and 36.7 percent scored 18+.
These are low percentages, but one might expect as much given that the RSD Class of 2015 ACT composite was 16.6.
What is also noteworthy is the number of RSD seniors: 1065 for a district of 30,448 students.
Using the LDOE district enrollment counts for February 2015 and Williams’ ACT-New Orleans Recovery School District, ACT Outcomes, and Falling Through the Cracks | deutsch29:
