Brownfields Elementary School

Brownfields Elementary School operates as a modestly sized primary school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, one of the schools within East Baton Rouge Parish. Current enrollment sits at 368 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

East Baton Rouge Parish comprises 83 schools with combined enrollment of 40,083 students; Brownfields Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Brownfields Elementary School reports that 89% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder consists of 6% Hispanic, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 44% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against East Baton Rouge Parish (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Brownfields Elementary School 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 19.2%; Brownfields Elementary School posts 45.3%, +26.1 points above that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (East Baton Rouge Parish) logs that the typical household earns roughly $63,071 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. In all, East Baton Rouge Parish runs 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students), of which Brownfields Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Helix Aviation Academy, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Brownfields Elementary School comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 14.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. Brownfields Elementary School's enrollment has expanded 25% since 2018, when it stood at 294 (now 368). The Black share of enrollment fell from 96% to 89% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 21.0:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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