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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Bridgedale Elementary School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
491
Elementary
DISTRICT 539 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JEFFERSON PARISH·NCES 220084000588
Bridgedale Elementary School
808 Zinnia Street, Metairie, LA 70001 · (504) 888-6807 · Jefferson Parish
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL491 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 28% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
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
13.8:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
346 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 | 39 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 71 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 73 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 83 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 84 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 65 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (71) is 9% larger than its 5th grade class (65).
Student demographics
53%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
34.0%
LA avg 41.8% . -7.0pp since 2022
Math
31.0%
LA avg 34.2% . -6.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 6 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 34.0% | 31.0% |
| 2024-25 | 33.0% | 31.0% |
| 2023-24 | 38.0% | 25.0% |
| 2022-23 | 41.0% | 37.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
28.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.6%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Louisiana's top nor bottom 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 Bridgedale Elementary School
Bridgedale Elementary School's state test result (28.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridgedale Elementary School this school | 491 | 70.5% | 28.7% |
| A.C. Alexander School Kenner | 567 | 71.8% | 28.0% |
| Greenlawn Terrace Elementary School Kenner | 542 | 69.6% | 16.5% |
| John James Audubon School Kenner | 572 | 74.3% | 26.2% |
| Green Park Elementary School Metairie | 433 | 67.7% | 26.0% |
| William Hart Elementary School Gretna | 320 | 67.8% | 19.3% |
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 Bridgedale Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Jefferson Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.7% | #334 of 583 | #15 of 50 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 31.0% | #317 of 582 ▼ 15 | #13 of 48 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #361 of 587 ▲ 17 | #19 of 50 ▲ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -6.5pp | #100 of 540 | #4 of 46 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 491 | #272 of 714 | #31 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #388 of 655 | #38 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.8% | #287 of 655 | #34 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.5% | #406 of 705 | #25 of 51 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.2% | #130 of 197 | #21 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
491
-33 (-6%) vs 2020
+1% since 1990-91, when it was 486
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 16.9:1
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 | 491 | 35.6 | 13.8:1 | 70% (346) |
| 2023-24 | 526 | 38.1 | 13.8:1 | 52% (276) |
| 2022-23 | 544 | 30.5 | 17.8:1 | 56% (306) |
| 2020-21 | 524 | 31 | 16.9:1 | 55% (290) |
| 2017-18 | 458 | 28 | 16.4:1 | 54% (248) |
| 2015-16 | 554 | 39 | 14.2:1 | 86% (476) |
| 2010-11 | 446 | 34 | 13.1:1 | 86% (383) |
| 2000-01 | 411 | 24 | 17.1:1 | 71% (292) |
| 1990-91 | 486 | 25 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bridgedale Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 7% (458 to 491); teachers up 27% (28 to 35.6).
About Bridgedale Elementary School
Families in Metairie, Louisiana, are served by Bridgedale Elementary School, a medium-sized elementary school. The school counts 491 students across pre-K through 5.
Within Jefferson Parish, Bridgedale Elementary School is one of 74 schools. The district enrolls 46,790 students.
Hispanic students make up a majority at Bridgedale Elementary School, at 65%. The next largest groups are 18% Black, 14% White, and 2% multiracial. In Jefferson Parish overall, about 19% of residents are Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 53% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
A ratio of 13.8:1 comes from the school's 35.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is close to the 14.0:1 average for elementary schools in Louisiana. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 70% in 2024-25. For comparison, public schools in Jefferson Parish average 68%.
The allk12 Grade for Bridgedale Elementary School is C. Compared with Louisiana public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 28% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Bridgedale Elementary School would score about 33.6%. It scores 28.7%, 4.9 points below that figure.
County data help place the school in context: in Jefferson Parish, the median household income is $65,252, about 31% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 13% of residents are in poverty. In all, Jefferson Parish has 86 public schools and roughly 47,983 students.
The school nearest to Bridgedale Elementary School is East Jefferson High School, at a distance of about 0.4 miles. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Bridgedale Elementary School is 4th on average proficiency.
Bridgedale Elementary School is coded as City: Mid-size in federal locale data.
Enrollment is down 6% from 2020-21, when Bridgedale Elementary School had 524 students, to 2024-25, when it had 491. Students per teacher fell from 16.9 in 2020-21 to 13.8 in 2024-25.
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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
- East Jefferson High School0.4 mi · 1,381
- T.H. Harris Middle School0.7 mi · 563
- Rudolph Matas School0.8 mi · 600
- Phoebe Hearst School1.2 mi · 602
- Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies1.2 mi · 434
- Joseph C Moscona School1.6 mi · 521
Frequently asked questions
About Bridgedale Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Bridgedale Elementary School?
Bridgedale Elementary School enrolls approximately 491 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Bridgedale Elementary School serve?
Bridgedale Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Bridgedale Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Bridgedale Elementary School is approximately 13.8:1 (36 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Bridgedale Elementary School?
Bridgedale Elementary School reports a student body of 14% White, 65% Hispanic, 18% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Bridgedale Elementary School?
Bridgedale Elementary School is overseen by Jefferson Parish in Jefferson Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.