Comparison of our predictions of $f_{\mathrm{esc}}^{900}$ from Equation (7) with escape fractions inferred in Parker et al. (in prep.) for all CLASSY galaxies, listed on the x-axis. The open symbols represent the six methods with which $f_{\mathrm{esc}}^{900}$ was inferred from observations and which are detailed in Sect. 4.3.2. The purple dots show the median of the six measurements, and the red pentagons show our predictions. The shaded blue region represents weak leakers, as defined in Parker et al. (2026), and the shaded dark pink region represents strong leakers.