Efforts to establish a new charter school with an emphasis on film and digital media in Baton Rouge are forging ahead. That’s according to Fallon Ward, the school’s executive director. Ward tells Daily Report that the Louisiana Academy of Production is currently in the charter approval process and that she expects its charter to be

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Two Baton Rouge schools have been named 2024 National Blue Ribbon Schools. The Baton Rouge schools are Mayfair Laboratory School and St. Aloysius School.

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — Mayfair Laboratory School has been named a 2024 National Blue Ribbon School. According to the East Baton Rouge Parish School System, Mayfair was awarded a National Blue Ribbon by the United States Department of Education.

Two Baton Rouge elementary schools — one public, one private – have been named National Blue Ribbon Schools, the nation's highest school honor. Mayfair Lab School, which opened in 2013, is a first-time winner, while the other Baton Rouge school, St. Aloysius Catholic School, is a second-time winner, last winning in 2015.