Paul Caliste is the founder and sole tutor of Next Level Math Tutoring. He is a Louisiana native and alumnus of Destrehan High School and the University of Louisiana at Monroe.
Paul has 19 years of experience as a math tutor, first as a peer tutor for Destrehan High School's newly established after-school peer tutoring program as a sophomore in 2004. During his time as a high school student, he also tutored for St. Matthew Baptist Church’s after-school tutoring program and earned an ACT Superscore of 31 with a 32 in the mathematics section.
After graduating high school in 2007, he attended the University of Louisiana at Monroe and became a student tutor for the university from 2008 until he graduated in 2011. During that time, he gained experience tutoring various college level math courses including Algebra, Precalculus, Trigonometry, Statistics, and Calculus I. While at ULM, he also earned a minor in mathematics with his bachelor’s degree in Atmospheric Science.
After college, he continued tutoring math privately, but also had several positions in math education. He was a permanent substitute teacher for West St. John High School in Edgard, LA, teaching honors-level Algebra I and Advanced Math during the fall 2012 semester and for River Oaks School in Monroe, LA teaching Prealgebra, Algebra II, and Elementary Statistics during the spring 2014 semester. Paul then became a full-time 7th grade math, 8th grade math, and Algebra I teacher for Richwood Middle School in Monroe, LA during the 2014-2015 school year and a full-time Integrated Math I and II teacher at Neville High School during the 2016-2017 school year. Most recently, he was the math instructor for the TRiO Veterans Upward Bound program at Louisiana Delta Community College from 2019 to 2022.
His other math credentials include earning a top 20% national score on the GRE Quantitative Reasoning (math section) and a top 15% national score on the PRAXIS Mathematics Content Knowledge exam.
Paul has 19 years of experience as a math tutor, first as a peer tutor for Destrehan High School's newly established after-school peer tutoring program as a sophomore in 2004. During his time as a high school student, he also tutored for St. Matthew Baptist Church’s after-school tutoring program and earned an ACT Superscore of 31 with a 32 in the mathematics section.
After graduating high school in 2007, he attended the University of Louisiana at Monroe and became a student tutor for the university from 2008 until he graduated in 2011. During that time, he gained experience tutoring various college level math courses including Algebra, Precalculus, Trigonometry, Statistics, and Calculus I. While at ULM, he also earned a minor in mathematics with his bachelor’s degree in Atmospheric Science.
After college, he continued tutoring math privately, but also had several positions in math education. He was a permanent substitute teacher for West St. John High School in Edgard, LA, teaching honors-level Algebra I and Advanced Math during the fall 2012 semester and for River Oaks School in Monroe, LA teaching Prealgebra, Algebra II, and Elementary Statistics during the spring 2014 semester. Paul then became a full-time 7th grade math, 8th grade math, and Algebra I teacher for Richwood Middle School in Monroe, LA during the 2014-2015 school year and a full-time Integrated Math I and II teacher at Neville High School during the 2016-2017 school year. Most recently, he was the math instructor for the TRiO Veterans Upward Bound program at Louisiana Delta Community College from 2019 to 2022.
His other math credentials include earning a top 20% national score on the GRE Quantitative Reasoning (math section) and a top 15% national score on the PRAXIS Mathematics Content Knowledge exam.