1
What's the best and worst thing about the food at Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
434
Elementary
DISTRICT 539 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JEFFERSON PARISH·NCES 220084002298
Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies
6201 Camphor Street, Metairie, LA 70003 · (504) 888-0969 · Jefferson Parish
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL434 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 99% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Louisiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
93 students
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 70%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 35 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 56 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 78 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 78 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 65 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 66 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (66).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 65% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
91.0%
LA avg 41.8%
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 91 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level. The Louisiana average is about 42 of 100.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 91.0% | N/A |
| 2024-25 | N/A | 94.0% |
| 2023-24 | 94.0% | N/A |
| 2022-23 | N/A | 94.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of LA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
92.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.0%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+23.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 92% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 69% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 23 points, placing it in Louisiana's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies
Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies's state test result (92.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies this school | 434 | 21.4% | 92.3% |
| Metairie Academy for Advanced Studies Metairie | 356 | 41.6% | 94.5% |
| Ray St. Pierre Academy for Advanced Studies Westwego | 354 | 45.8% | 76.3% |
| Gretna No. 2 Academy for Advanced Studies Gretna | 355 | 41.1% | 89.8% |
| Westdale Heights Academic Magnet School Baton Rouge | 453 | 38.0% | 85.0% |
| Mayfair Laboratory School Baton Rouge | 480 | 24.4% | 87.7% |
Matched among Louisiana elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Jefferson Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 92.3% | #2 of 583 | #2 of 50 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 94.0% | #2 of 582 | #1 of 48 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 91.0% | #5 of 587 | #3 of 50 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 434 | #338 of 714 | #37 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #351 of 655 | #33 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.6% | #73 of 655 | #14 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.4% | #699 of 705 | #51 of 51 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +15.4% | #79 of 197 | #16 of 26 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
434
+39 (+10%) vs 2020
+55% since 2010-11, when it was 280
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
was 23.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 434 | 32 | 13.6:1 | 21% (93) |
| 2023-24 | 429 | 26.9 | 15.9:1 | 17% (74) |
| 2022-23 | 418 | 19.9 | 21.0:1 | 16% (67) |
| 2020-21 | 395 | 17 | 23.2:1 | 12% (49) |
| 2017-18 | 376 | 15.3 | 24.5:1 | 6% (21) |
| 2015-16 | 381 | 25 | 15.2:1 | 21% (80) |
| 2010-11 | 280 | 19 | 14.7:1 | 32% (90) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies.
Since 2017-18: students up 15% (376 to 434); teachers up 108% (15.3 to 32).
About Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies
Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies is a medium-sized elementary school located in Metairie, Louisiana. The grade span is pre-K through 5, and enrollment is 434 students.
Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies is part of a district of 74 schools: Jefferson Parish, with 46,790 students.
White students make up a majority at Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies, at 52%. The remaining students are 21% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 10% Black, and 4% multiracial. For comparison, Jefferson Parish is about 50% White. Pick two students at random and there is a 66% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The teaching staff at Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies is 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 13.6:1. That matches the 14.0:1 average for elementary schools in Louisiana fairly closely. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 21%. The 68% average for public schools in Jefferson Parish is 47 points higher.
allk12 grades Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies an A+. The grade compares the school only with Louisiana public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies would score about 69.0%. It scores 92.3%, a top-10% result among Louisiana schools on BeatsExpectations.
According to the American Community Survey, in Jefferson Parish, the median household income is $65,252, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 13% of people live in poverty. Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies is one of 86 public schools in the county.
Rudolph Matas School is the public school closest to Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies, about 0.5 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies's average proficiency of 92.3% compares with 26.1% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The school's locale code, City: Mid-size, means it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 39 more students in 2024-25. The school's ratio fell from 23.2:1 to 13.6:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies covering things like sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Jefferson Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
430,920
Census ACS
Median income
$65,252
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
86
47,983 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Jefferson Parish
- Bonnabel Magnet Academy High SchoolHigh · 2,376 students
- Kenner Discovery Health Sciences AcademyCombined · 2,263 students
- John Ehret High SchoolHigh · 1,850 students
- West Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,438 students
- East Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,381 students
- Riverdale High SchoolHigh · 1,259 students
Other schools in Metairie
- East Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,381 students
- Haynes Academy School for Advanced StudiesHigh · 872 students
- J.D. Meisler Middle SchoolMiddle · 679 students
- John Q. Adams Middle SchoolMiddle · 658 students
- Bissonet Plaza SchoolElementary · 624 students
- Phoebe Hearst SchoolElementary · 602 students
Nearby schools
- Rudolph Matas School0.5 mi · 600
- T.H. Harris Middle School0.6 mi · 563
- Phoebe Hearst School0.7 mi · 602
- Green Park Elementary School1.1 mi · 433
- Bridgedale Elementary School1.2 mi · 491
- East Jefferson High School1.6 mi · 1,381
Frequently asked questions
About Airline Park Academy for Advanced StudiesWhat is the total enrollment at Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies?
Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies enrolls approximately 434 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies serve?
Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies?
Approximately 13.6:1 students per teacher at Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies.
What is the student diversity at Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies?
Student demographics at Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies are roughly 52% White, 12% Hispanic, 10% Black, 21% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies?
Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies is overseen by Jefferson Parish in Jefferson Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.