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Acadia Parish names Elise Boutin teacher of the year, previews LEAP scores and opening plans
Summary
The board recognized Well Ahead Healthy Schools, named Elise Boutin Rain High School—28099s 2025 Teacher of the Year and heard preliminary LEAP results and opening-of-school updates, including a new cell-phone policy and air-conditioner status ahead of the first day.
The Acadia Parish School Board honored several campuses for completing the Louisiana Department of Health—28099s Well Ahead benchmarks and announced Elise Boutin, a publications and senior English teacher at Rain High School, as Acadia—28099s 2025 Teacher of the Year.
"I'm really honored to be able to represent our parish," Boutin said, adding she hopes to highlight positives in rural schools and give a voice to smaller districts that can be overlooked.
District staff provided an initial release and explanation of 2023—2809324 LEAP results, cautioning that the material presented was preliminary and still being cleaned. Staff said Acadia ranked third in Region 4 for the percentage of students scoring at mastery and above in aggregate measures and outlined plans for school-by-school review and targeted supports, including use of the BESE-directed high-dosage tutoring allocation.
Superintendent/staff also briefed the board on opening-of-school operations. The district said it will implement a new cell-phone policy required by recent legislative action: phones may be brought to school but must be turned off and properly stowed during instruction; violations will be disciplined under existing school procedures. Facilities staff reported several air-conditioner units were out before the meeting (six reported) and described replacement or temporary measures to keep classrooms usable when students arrive.
The board offered congratulations to new principals and staff and closed the meeting after routine consent items.
Next steps: staff said cleaned state accountability scores will be shared with the board when available and that principals and other new administrators will be introduced at a future meeting so the board can "put a name to the face."
