Development is underway throughout the St. Tammany Parish Public Faculty System following voter approval of the 2025 Constructing Futures, Securing Tomorrow Bond. Additions, renovations and upgrades are deliberate at 23 colleges, changing all tutorial transportable school rooms with everlasting studying areas.

The initiatives additionally embrace campus security and safety enhancements, enhanced know-how and the creation of the highly-anticipated STPPS Healthcare and STEM Discovery Heart.

The $30 million new heart will develop twin enrollment, AP and well being care certification alternatives whereas making a workforce pipeline colleges and the native medical group,

The parish educates virtually 37,000 college students in 55 colleges throughout St. Tammany Parish. Newly-implemented tutorial adjustments confirmed measurable tutorial good points.

Highschool college students accomplished their first full yr underneath a brand new block scheduling mannequin, giving college students longer class durations and fewer programs every semester.

“We now have the information to indicate the prolonged tutorial time, extra partaking instruction and lowered course load is making a distinction,” stated Superintendent Frank Jabbia.

Based on the district, the proportion of highschool college students scoring on the mastery or superior degree on LEAP exams elevated by 4.8 p.c. Course failure charges declined by 4.3 p.c, whereas suspension referrals dropped 5.5 p.c.

The district additionally expanded alternatives for college kids to earn faculty credit score by way of a partnership with Northshore Technical Group Faculty, providing 12 hours of educational twin enrollment together with profession and technical schooling twin enrollment programs.

“All eighteen college students handed the Licensed Scientific Medical Assistant examination,” Jabbia stated. “A one hundred pc go charge is one thing to have a good time.”

College students additionally posted elevated scores on nationwide assessments. The district’s common ACT rating elevated from 20.4 to twenty.7 for the 2025-26 faculty yr, exceeding the 2025 nationwide common of 19.2 on the ACT.

Greater than half of district college students scored 20 or larger on the ACT, and the variety of Nationwide Benefit Finalists from St. Tammany Parish elevated from 11 to 12 college students.

College students and employees earned recognition on the state and nationwide ranges throughout the 2025-26 faculty yr.

District College students of the Yr Brix LaFontaine of Little Oak Center Faculty, Robert Ryals IV of Fontainebleau Junior Excessive and Beija Lopes-Morgan of Mandeville Excessive Faculty have been all named finalists in Louisiana’s Pupil of the Yr competitors.

Creekside Junior Excessive paraprofessional Aaron Spring was named the 2026 Excellent Faculty Help Worker Total Honoree by the Louisiana Division of Training.

Profession and technical schooling college students additionally earned nationwide recognition. On the Jobs for America’s Graduates Nationwide Profession Growth Convention, Lakeshore Excessive Faculty received the nationwide championship within the Mission-Based mostly Studying Showcase for its “JAG BAG” initiative, which gives waterproof baggage to folks experiencing homelessness.

Salmen Excessive Faculty positioned ninth in monetary literacy competitions whereas robotics groups throughout the district captured 5 match championships and earned six invites to worldwide competitions.

“Our objective is for each scholar to graduate not solely ready for faculty or a profession, but in addition to graduate as a well-rounded particular person who leaves our colleges higher outfitted for all times than after they first entered our system,” Jabbia stated.

The district highlighted efforts to recruit and retain educators by way of expanded skilled growth and worker recognition.

In the course of the previous yr, St. Tammany Parish Public Colleges provided 161 skilled growth classes, together with 41 targeted on English language arts instruction. Academics rated the coaching extremely, with an general common rating of 4.68 out of 5 on post-session evaluations.

“Our Curriculum and Instruction crew has personally seen virtually each instructor who attended implement the methods of their classroom this previous yr and share it with their colleagues in Skilled Studying Communities,” Jabbia stated.

The district additionally continues to acknowledge staff all year long by way of Excellence Awards and his “Implausible Friday” cellphone calls.

Jabbia personally presents Excellence Awards twice every month to staff and college students and personally known as greater than 100 employees members final faculty yr to acknowledge their contributions. Throughout your entire district in all departments, there are 5,292 staff.

“We worth our staff and work to acknowledge their efforts all yr lengthy by way of our recognition award packages,” he stated.

The 2026-27 faculty yr theme is “Constructing Our Legacy.”

The thought is that “each lesson taught, each scholar inspired, each problem overcome, and each relationship constructed contributes to one thing better than ourselves.”

“Our goal within the St. Tammany Parish Public Faculty System is to teach each scholar and ensure they attain their full potential. We’re dedicated to assembly college students the place they’re, supporting their tutorial progress and creating the entire baby,” Jabbia stated.