Congetta Trippe Janet Elementary School

Congetta Trippe Janet Elementary School is a well-populated elementary-level community in Marrero, Louisiana, operated by Jefferson Parish. The school hosts 868 students in grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 92% bigger than the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 453 students.

Congetta Trippe Janet Elementary School is one of 74 schools operated by Jefferson Parish, a district that instructs 46,790 students overall.

On demographics, Congetta Trippe Janet Elementary School records that the largest single group is Black at 47%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 28% White, 14% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Jefferson Parish as a whole is about 26% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Roughly 68% of students at Congetta Trippe Janet Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Congetta Trippe Janet Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.1%, the actual is 32.3%, a residual of -2.8 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Jefferson Parish shows median household income runs about $65,252, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Jefferson Parish runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 47,983 students), of which Congetta Trippe Janet Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Fisher Middle/High School, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Congetta Trippe Janet Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Congetta Trippe Janet Elementary School at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 21.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Congetta Trippe Janet Elementary School's enrollment has rose 29% since 2018, when it stood at 675 (now 868). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 37% to 28%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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