Baton Rouge Center for Visual and Performing Arts

Baton Rouge Center for Visual and Performing Arts is an elementary campus of middle-of-the-pack scale in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, one of the schools within East Baton Rouge Parish, enrolling 594 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Baton Rouge Center for Visual and Performing Arts sits 31% bigger than that benchmark.

East Baton Rouge Parish runs 83 schools in total, collectively educating 40,083 students. Baton Rouge Center for Visual and Performing Arts is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Baton Rouge Center for Visual and Performing Arts records that the largest single group is Black, at 66% of enrollment; the rest looks like 22% White, 4% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 44% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Baton Rouge Center for Visual and Performing Arts has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. About 57% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than East Baton Rouge Parish's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Baton Rouge Center for Visual and Performing Arts ranks in the top 10% of Louisiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 43.3%; Baton Rouge Center for Visual and Performing Arts posts 63.7%, +20.3 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (East Baton Rouge Parish) logs that the typical household earns roughly $63,071 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across East Baton Rouge Parish's 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students), Baton Rouge Center for Visual and Performing Arts is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Magnolia Woods Elementary School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Baton Rouge Center for Visual and Performing Arts. On composite proficiency, Baton Rouge Center for Visual and Performing Arts comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 36.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 35%: 440 students in 2018 compared to 594 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share grew from 55% to 66%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.