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The qualifications are in and the LeBron James I Promise Falling school, but a “progress” is being made, according to recently published data from the Ohio Department of Education.
Achievement scores for I Promise, the LeBron school began in 2018 in collaboration with the city of Akron to serve children at risk, are still bad. Really bad.
No, not as bad as in 2023, when it was revealed that not a single degree of eighth grade had approved Ohio’s mathematical competition test, but there are still important problems, based on the new data that Outkick analyzed.
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LeBron James goes to the crowd during the opening ceremonies of the I Promise school on July 30, 2018 in Akron, Ohio. (Jason Miller/Getty images)
Only two of 75 (2.7%) promised that 7th grade students passed the state mathematics test in 2024-25. The state average is 50%.
How bad are the test scores? Most of the school grades have competition rates in a single digit for teenagers. These percentages are routinely 40-50 points below the averages of the state of Ohio.
They are not just mathematics with which LeBron’s children are fighting. Five of the 76 sixth grade students passed the English language art test. That is 6.6%.
The state average is 54.5%.
Not a single degree is close to state levels of competence.
The school, as a whole, is firmly classified as a school of a star in achievement. That is as low as the State classifies schools.
Hey, but not everything is bad for LeBron’s school
But, despite these continuous problems for LeBron’s school, Ohio Doe gave the four -star LeBron team for “progress.”
The State says that there is “significant evidence that the school exceeded the expectations of growth of students. According to the” statistical evidence “gathered by the DOE, it has been determined that there is” evidence of growth. ”
The brilliant point seems to be the fifth grade degree that had the best numbers of mathematical competition throughout the school. 20 of the 82 students approved the test. That is 24.4% of the class. The state average is 56.7%
Some call this progress.
In 2019, LeBron boasted that his school was going to put the children on his way after they suffered in public schools
LeBron James answers questions during a press conference on August 8, 2014 in Akron, Ohio, during a ceremony to honor James. (Angelo Merendino/Corbis through Getty Images)
“LeBron James opened a school that was considered an experiment. He is promising,” announced the New York Times less than a year after the school opened.
It was a pen on LeBron’s lid. The national media had the story I needed: LeBron is a hero.
“These children are doing incredible job, better than we all expected,” James told New York Times in 2019 after the exam scores showed that his school was working. “When we started, people knew they were opening a school for children. Now people will really understand the lack of education they had before coming to our school. People will finally understand what happens behind our doors.”
It does not seem that The Times has written a single story about the I promise test scores since then.
