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Grant Parish Public Schools Posts Academic Growth on 2025–2026 LEAP Assessments

Grant Parish Public Schools saw proficiency rise across the district on the 2025–2026 LEAP assessments, with an overall 2% gain — one of the district’s best showings in the past six years.

District leaders point to steady work by teachers, principals, students, and families as the reason behind the numbers.

Growth Across Core Subjects

Students improved in most tested areas:

• English Language Arts rose 1%
• Mathematics rose 3%
• Science rose 3%
• Social Studies held steady, keeping the prior year’s gains

Superintendent Dr. Erin Stokes gave the credit to the district’s educators.

“None of this happens without teachers who set the bar high and show up for kids every single day. These results belong to them.”

— Dr. Erin Stokes, Superintendent

A Second Strong Year for Reading Growth

Grant Parish again ranked among Louisiana’s top districts for literacy growth — the second year in a row it has done so. The district finished 11th out of 69, posting a 21-point jump between students’ beginning-of-year and end-of-year literacy assessments.

Leaders tie the gains to a few things they’ve stuck with: solid classroom instruction, teachers working together, and a habit of letting student data drive decisions rather than guesswork.

What’s Working in Classrooms

A handful of practices have taken root across Grant Parish schools. Teachers are handing more of the learning over to students while holding expectations high, and they’re teaching a high-quality, research-based curriculum as designed, planning around what their students actually need. Teacher teams meet regularly to look at student work together and sharpen their instruction, and they lean on student data to spot where kids are strong and where they’re struggling — then pull small groups to target those gaps.

“Our teachers were willing to look hard at their own practice, try new things, and change how they teach. That’s not easy. But they trusted the process, backed each other up, and kept the focus on students.”

— Dr. Erin Stokes, Superintendent

Not Done Yet

For all the good news, district leaders are quick to say the work isn’t finished.

“We’re proud, but we’re not satisfied. Raising proficiency isn’t the finish line. We want more students reaching mastery and walking out of our schools genuinely ready for whatever comes next. So we’ll keep refining, and we’ll keep learning from what the data tells us.”

— Dr. Erin Stokes, Superintendent