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Woodlawn Middle principal highlights gains, calls for staffing and safety investments
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Woodlawn Middle School Principal Raquel Brown told the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board the school’s performance score rose to 73.8 and described needs including more certified teachers, volunteers for tutoring and a controlled entrance or better scanners for safety.
Raquel Brown, principal of Woodlawn Middle School, told the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board on 2025-05-01 that the school’s performance score rose to 73.8 and that the school has seen a 10-point gain in school performance between 2023 and 2024.
Brown said Woodlawn serves grades 6–8 and that the student body “is 67% economically disadvantaged. 58.3% of our students are African American, 21.4% are Hispanic, 15.6% are white and 3.9% are Asian.” She also reported subgroup figures: 8.7% of students have 504 plans, 9.9% receive ESS services and 11% are English language learners.
Brown said mastery/advanced rates in English language arts are…
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