District Findings: Avoyelles Parish

The following are the findings from our 2017 School System 20/20 assessment on how Avoyelles Parish Schools (a rural district located north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana) uses resources like people, time, and money. In addition to highlighting many positive strategic investments that led to improvements in student performance in English language arts, ERS recommends further investments to address challenges such as teacher shortages and struggling students getting enough time to catch up.

We focus on three important opportunities for Avoyelles:

• Increase teacher salaries to address the critical teacher shortage.
• Realign schedules and staffing practices, so struggling students could receive more time and attention in core subject areas.
• Roll out guidance and rubrics to help teachers optimize the district’s investment in time for teacher collaboration.

Read the press release or view the presentation below for more information.