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Academy had grown to a K-3 school and its first class of third graders took the State of Louisiana iLEAP exam, given annually to third and fifth-eighth graders. Over 88% of Akili students performed at or above grade level on the iLEAP, the highest percentage in the entire Recovery School District. Additionally, 45% of students achieved a level of Advanced or Mastery in ELA and Math. For two consecutive seasons (2011 and 2012), Akili Academy had the highest-performing third graders in the Recovery School District on the iLEAP. In 2014, Akili Academy sixth graders were in the Top 10 in the city for scoring Mastery and Advanced in English Language Arts. Akili was the only school in the Recovery School District represented on this list. Between 2014 and 2016, Akili increased the percentage of students reading on or above grade level by 15 percentage points, from 44% of students reading on or above grade level to 59%. Akili Academy is well known throughout the City of New Orleans for its championship winning athletic programs. Akili offers competition sports such as baseball, basketball, cheerleading, football, soccer, softball, track and volleyball to 5-8 grade students. During the 2017-2018 athletic year, the Gators won 11 of 13 New Orleans Charter School Athletic Association City Championships. Scholar athletes, are heavily recruited by local public and private high school athletic programs.
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269:. Crescent City Schools is part of a movement in New Orleans to transform one of the worst school systems in the country. In the fall of 2010, Crescent City Schools received a Type 5 charter from the state of Louisiana to transform a failing school in New Orleans. In February 2011, Crescent City Schools was assigned to Harriet Tubman, a K-8 school in Orleans Parish, and assumed operations there on July 1, 2011. In 2012, the organization was awarded the expanded charter for Akili Academy of New Orleans and the charter for Paul B. Habans Elementary. Habans opened as Paul Habans Charter School in July 2013.
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