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NELA charter school scores vary broadly

Bonnie Bolden
bbolden@thenewsstar.com

Northeastern Louisiana is home to six BESE-approved charter schools and two public laboratory schools tied to universities. Scores for those schools provided by the Louisiana Department of Education run the gamut. Two scored an A, one earned a B, two pulled down C's, one got a D, and one has an F. Three schools closed and combined into one K-12; they scored a C, D and F.

A.E. Phillips Laboratory School, a kindergarten through eighth-grade public school operated on campus by Louisiana Tech University, earned an A for the third year in a row. The school serves almost 400 students and pulled up a 123.2 to 126.7. The school's score is again among the Top 25 public schools in the state.

D'Arbonne Woods Charter School, which serves almost 900 prekindergarten through high school students in Union Parish, pulled a 99.4 B up to a 102.1 A.

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Delhi Charter raised a 91.6 B to a 93.7 B. It's the third year that the school, which serves about 850 kindergartners through high schoolers, earned a B.

Tallulah Charter educates about 400 students in prekindergarten through seventh grade. In 2013-14, the school had a 38.8 F that it improved to a 72.2 C last year. In 2015-16, the school scored a 77 C.

New Vision Learning Academy serves about 340 prekindergarten through sixth-grade students in Monroe. The school's score fell from a 93.4 B to a 71.3 C.

Three lab schools at Grambling State University were merged into one K-12, Lincoln Preparatory School, starting in the 2016-17 school year. Previously, the schools operated as three separate entities. Those schools were A. J. Brown Elementary School, which fell from a 47.5 D to a 46.6 F in 2016; Grambling State University Middle School, which had maintained a D; and Grambling State University Lab High School, which had pulled up a 68.7 D to a 72.3 C.

Read more: Grambling lab schools merge into K-12

Northeast Claiborne Charter has about 150 kindergarten through high school students. The Junction City school pulled a 42.6 F up to a 51.3 D.

Vision Academy in Monroe serves approximately 175 high school students. The school opened in the 2014-15 school year and pulled up a 13.1 F to a 30.2 F.

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To find your school's score, go to: louisianabelieves.com/data/reportcards/2016/