The top reported proficiency rate is 21% in English language arts. The lowest is 7% in Social studies.
Original Research by School Decision on Jonesboro-hodge Elementary School
Jonesboro-Hodge Elementary School serves students from prekindergarten through fifth grade in the town of Jonesboro, the parish seat of Jackson Parish in north Louisiana. It is a regular public school within the Jackson Parish school system. The town itself is a small industrial mill community and the economic and governmental center of the parish, with a downtown corridor along Jimmie Davis Boulevard that includes local banks, churches, and the parish courthouse. Key employers include the Jackson Parish Correctional Center, the school board, Louisiana Delta Community College’s local campus, and town government. The housing market reflects a low cost of living; home values have roughly doubled over the past two decades but remain well below national benchmarks, and the area has seen modest population shifts in recent years.
The school’s enrollment is moderate for an elementary school serving this grade range. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals, indicating that the school community includes many families with lower household incomes. The student body is predominantly Black, with a sizable white population and a smaller share of students who identify as two or more races. Asian and Hispanic students together account for a very small fraction of enrollment. Data on the share of students with individualized education programs or English learner classifications was not available in the source materials.
State testing results from the LEAP 2025 assessments provide a picture of academic performance that a parent will want to look into further with the school. In English language arts, roughly one in five students scored at the proficient level or above. In math, the share was closer to one in ten. In science and social studies, the rates were similarly low. These results represent a single year of data, and the state indicated a change in cut scores for social studies that may affect comparability with prior years. The school had full participation on test day, with every enrolled student taking the assessments.
The district comparison information was limited because Jonesboro-Hodge Elementary is the only school-level entity within Jackson Parish in this data set, so there was no basis for positioning it relative to neighboring district schools within the county. That means the assessment results stand on their own rather than against a local peer group.
The school’s grade configuration means it feeds into Jonesboro-Hodge Middle School and later Jonesboro-Hodge High School, all within the same small district. For families considering this school, the academic context is one where the majority of students are not yet reaching the state’s proficiency benchmark in core subjects, which may be worth discussing with the school’s leadership to understand what interventions and supports are in place. The school itself functions as a neighborhood elementary school in a town where civic and educational facilities are integrated into the community fabric rather than set apart on separate campuses.
Because this is an elementary school, there is no graduation rate to report. No information was available on program offerings such as gifted and talented, accelerated courses, or specialized enrichment, so this narrative cannot describe what those look like at Jonesboro-Hodge Elementary. The district brief turned up little of lasting impact in terms of recent structural changes, so this account reflects the school as it stood during the 2024-25 school year.
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