Martha Vinyard Elementary School

Ponchatoula, LA 70454

Phone: (985) 386-6364
Fax: (985) 386-2553
District: Tangipahoa Parish School District

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GreatSchools Rating

public • Grades 5,6 • 589 students

Martha Vinyard Elementary School, a public school located in Ponchatoula, LA, serves grades 5-6 in the Tangipahoa Parish School District.It has received a GreatSchools Rating of 2 out of 10, based on a variety of school quality measures.

Martha Vinyard Elementary School is a public school located in Ponchatoula, LA. 589 students attend Martha Vinyard Elementary School.

School Ratings

Category Rating Details
Test Scores 3/10 The Test Score Rating examines how students at this school performed on standardized tests compared with other schools in the state. The Test Rating was created using 2024 Louisiana Educational Assessment Program data from Louisiana Department of Education.
Student Growth 1/10 The Student Progress Rating measures whether students at this school are making academic progress over time based on student growth data provided by the Department of Education. Specifically, this rating looks at how much progress individual students have made on state assessments during the past year or more, how this performance aligns with expected progress based on a student growth model established by the state Department of Education, and how this school's growth data compares to other schools in the state. The Growth Rating was created using 2024 Percentage of students meeting growth target data from Louisiana Department of Education.

Worrisome patterns of out-of-school suspensions have been identified.

Posted: December 24, 2016

I went there as a child in the late 90's. Many people I know have had children go there recently, and it hasn't gotten any better. Bullying is not dealt with properly. The teachers and staff seem very conservative for the most part, which leads to a very uncaring approach to teaching. A lot of kids start falling to the wayside, and this is blamed on the students and their parents rather than the ones who are paid to teach these kids.

I was on the honor roll until I started going to school here. I never had any discipline problems. I was a shy, quiet child, and that ended up being to my detriment. My grades went down, especially in Math, and it didn't stop until my parents took me out of school. I rediscovered my love of learning and reading.

Ponchatoula schools in general are overrated. Most of them felt like a prison, which is a problem all over the country. Martha Vinyard was the worst.

Posted: December 24, 2016

Posted: December 24, 2016

Posted: December 24, 2016

Posted: December 24, 2016

Posted: December 24, 2016

I had one teacher who would watch soap operas in class. I had an English teacher who spoke in a deep drawl and used bad grammar. It was all about student responsibility. Responsibility is an important thing to learn to succeed at life. I have no issue with teaching responsibility, but they weren't teaching it. They were expecting it, while letting students fall to the wayside, and were more focused on discipline than teaching.

Posted: December 24, 2016

Too much reliance on homework and not enough teaching in the classroom.

Posted: March 29, 2011

Martha Vinyard has been brutalized by the public for many years. Children pass the 4th grade LEAP test. As they arrive at Vinyard, 5-6 grades, they are being prepared to pass the 8th grade LEAP. All skills in math, social studies, and science are new ideas the students have not had prior knowledge of. The curriculum is aggressive. The students who complete their work meet all the expectations of the teachers. Unfortuately, parental involvement is very poor. You see the same parents all the time (not that many). My children have had great experiences at Vinyard. The teachers were warm and caring, yet get through the discipline problems and the students who do not want to learn. Yes I am a parent who volunteers and also subs. My kids were involved in the clubs and the maintained good grades, but we had to study and work at it.. Vinyard has made my students better people. Maybe I was lucky not to have seen a bullying teacher there. The teachers want the students to succeed by setting goals and expectations for the students.

Posted: August 1, 2010

I attended this school in 2009-2010, and I have to say that this is the worst school in the parish. The teachers bully students and leave us unattended in the classrooms, and one teacher even presured us to make a good grade on our iLEAP test because that would make the school better and it would give her a raise.

Posted: March 27, 2010

my daughter has been an A/B honorroll student in every school she has been to before she when to martha vinyard school .the teachers blame her for failing on her beening a bad student .my child came home crying and not wanting to go to school because the teachers were so mean to her and they refused to answer her questions when she tryed to ask them something she didnt understand .and for the 1st time ever i had a parent/teacher conf.where the teachers try to tell me how my child refuse to study and learn.But how can these kids ;earn when they are so scared of the teachers and other poeple who work there. Well u can make ur own call but if a great student goes to this school and becomes scared of teachers she has would u really want ur child to go though

Posted: November 10, 2009

Posted: November 10, 2008

Posted: November 1, 2007

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