The top reported proficiency rate is 21% in Social studies. The lowest is 13% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Crowville School
Crowville School is a regular public school serving prekindergarten through eighth grade in the rural Franklin Parish of northeast Louisiana. It belongs to the Franklin Parish school system and draws its students from a wide, sparsely populated agricultural area. The school’s enrollment is small enough that a single campus handles the full elementary and middle grade range, so students who continue into high school would move to a parish-wide high school elsewhere.
The student body is roughly balanced between white students and Black students, with a small number of students of two or more races and very few Asian or Hispanic students. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals, meaning the school serves a community where economic need is widespread. Data on students with disabilities and English learners was not available, which is a gap a family may want to follow up on with the school directly.
Crowville itself is not a town in the conventional sense. It is an unincorporated crossroads community centered on the intersection of two state highways, with a post office, a health center, and a community organization called Friends of Crowville that runs a farmers market and seasonal events. The 2020 census counted only a handful of residents within the ZIP code, but the area functions as a commercial and service hub for the surrounding Ward 4, which includes many villages and scattered households. There is no downtown, no pedestrian grid, and no residential development growth. Farming has been the chief occupation since the area was settled more than a century ago. The school is effectively the local public institution for children across a wide rural catchment, and the county seat of Winnsboro, about a moderate drive north, holds the district’s central office and fuller civic infrastructure.
Academically, Crowville School participates in Louisiana’s LEAP 2025 assessments for grades three through eight. The proficiency rates across all tested subjects are low. In math, about one in eight students scored proficient or above. In English language arts, about one in five did. In science, the share was lower, and in social studies it was roughly one in five as well. These figures place the school significantly below the state average, a pattern that a parent considering this school would want to investigate further. Participation rates for the assessments were complete, so the results reflect the full tested population. Only a single year of data is available for these measures, so no trend can be established.
Because Crowville School serves only up to eighth grade, there is no graduation rate to report. Other measures that would typically round out a school’s profile, such as chronic absenteeism, discipline rates, course access, and staffing ratios, were not present in the available data. The comparison to other schools in Franklin Parish could not be made because there is only one district in the county, so the usual neighborhood benchmarking is not possible here.
What this picture adds up to is a rural school in an area with little economic or population growth, serving a high-poverty student population. The academic results are weak on the state’s proficiency bar, and the school’s context offers no major compensating programs or specialized offerings that were reported. For a family living in this part of Franklin Parish, Crowville School is the local option through eighth grade. A parent would likely want to understand what supports are in place for students who are not yet meeting grade-level expectations, and how the school works with the high-poverty population that characterizes the community. The absence of data on special education, English learner services, and staffing makes it hard to assess the full support environment from this information alone.
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