Alice Birney Elementary School

Set in Metairie, Louisiana, Alice Birney Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary school, one of the schools within Jefferson Parish. It caters to 579 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 28% bigger than the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 453 students.

Jefferson Parish comprises 74 schools with combined enrollment of 46,790 students; Alice Birney Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Alice Birney Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 68% of enrollment. Other groups include 13% White, 13% Black, 5% Asian, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Alice Birney Elementary School has 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. About 64% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Alice Birney Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.0%.

In the area at large, Jefferson Parish reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,252 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Jefferson Parish runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 47,983 students), of which Alice Birney Elementary School is one.

Harold Keller Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Alice Birney Elementary School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.0%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. Alice Birney Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 14% since 2018, when it stood at 671 (now 579). The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 61% to 68% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.0:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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