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How has Estelle School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
518
Elementary
DISTRICT 539 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JEFFERSON PARISH·NCES 220084000602
Estelle School
2800 Barataria Boulevard, Marrero, LA 70072 · (504) 347-3727 · Jefferson Parish
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL518 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 2% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
11.9:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
421 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 | 30 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 56 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 49 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 56 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 64 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 49 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 46 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 50 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 51 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is 10% larger than its 8th grade class (51).
Student demographics
60%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
20.0%
LA avg 41.8% . -5.0pp since 2022
Math
11.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +2.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 11 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 5 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 2 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 20.0% | 11.0% |
| 2024-25 | 21.0% | 6.0% |
| 2023-24 | 18.0% | 7.0% |
| 2022-23 | 25.0% | 9.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of LA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
11.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.8%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 11% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 26% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Estelle School
Estelle School's state test result (11.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Estelle School this school | 518 | 81.3% | 11.3% |
| Wedgewood Elementary School Baton Rouge | 456 | 82.9% | 20.8% |
| Meadowview Elementary School Bossier City | 440 | 81.6% | 14.3% |
| Jefferson Terrace Academy Baton Rouge | 571 | 78.5% | 13.0% |
| Emily C. Watkins Elementary Laplace | 551 | 80.6% | 23.0% |
| Waller Elementary School Bossier City | 424 | 77.8% | 12.7% |
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 Estelle School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Jefferson Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 11.3% | #560 of 583 | #50 of 50 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 11.0% | #548 of 582 ▲ 23 | #46 of 48 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 20.0% | #530 of 587 ▼ 14 | #46 of 50 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.5pp | #214 of 540 | #15 of 46 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 518 | #234 of 714 | #30 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.9:1 | #159 of 655 | #12 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.7% | #164 of 655 | #23 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.3% | #261 of 705 | #7 of 51 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -34.2% | #46 of 436 | #1 of 22 |
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
518
-268 (-34%) vs 2020
-45% since 1990-91, when it was 943
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
was 21.2:1
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 | 518 | 43.4 | 11.9:1 | 81% (421) |
| 2023-24 | 649 | 45.4 | 14.3:1 | 76% (491) |
| 2022-23 | 709 | 33.2 | 21.4:1 | 73% (519) |
| 2020-21 | 786 | 37 | 21.2:1 | 79% (623) |
| 2017-18 | 787 | 36.7 | 21.5:1 | 61% (479) |
| 2015-16 | 739 | 58 | 12.7:1 | 94% (692) |
| 2010-11 | 1,121 | 70 | 16.0:1 | 88% (990) |
| 2000-01 | 923 | 63 | 14.7:1 | 78% (718) |
| 1990-91 | 943 | 52 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Estelle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 34% (787 to 518); teachers up 18% (36.7 to 43.4).
About Estelle School
Estelle School is an elementary school with a street address in Marrero, Louisiana. It educates 518 students in pre-K through 8.
The 74 schools of Jefferson Parish, including Estelle School, enroll 46,790 students.
By race and ethnicity, Estelle School is 56% Black. After that, the student body is 28% Hispanic, 12% White, and 3% multiracial. Census figures show Jefferson Parish is about 26% Black. The chance that two students picked at random at Estelle School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 60%.
The teaching staff at Estelle School is 43.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 11.9:1. That ratio is under the 14.0:1 average for elementary schools in Louisiana. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 81%. The rate at public schools in Jefferson Parish averages 68%, lower than here.
allk12 grades Estelle School an F. The grade compares the school only with Louisiana public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
The school's average proficiency rate on state tests, 11.3%, is 14.5 points below the 25.8% the model predicts from its free or reduced-price lunch share. That result is in the bottom 10% of Louisiana schools.
Estelle School is located in Jefferson Parish, where median household income is about $65,252, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 31%, and roughly 13% of residents are in poverty. Estelle School is one of 86 public schools in Jefferson Parish, which together enroll about 47,983 students.
Fisher Middle/High School is the public school closest to Estelle School, about 0.5 miles away. Estelle School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 26.9% on proficiency, and Estelle School is below that at 11.3%.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 786 to 518. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 11.9:1, from 21.2:1.
Parents and students can post about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs at Estelle School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Marrero
- John Ehret High SchoolHigh · 1,850 students
- L.W. Higgins High SchoolHigh · 1,136 students
- Congetta Trippe Janet Elementary SchoolElementary · 868 students
- Allen Ellender SchoolElementary · 727 students
- Harry S Truman SchoolElementary · 717 students
- L.H. Marrero Middle SchoolMiddle · 619 students
Nearby schools
- Fisher Middle/High School0.5 mi · 498
- Harry S Truman School0.6 mi · 717
- Congetta Trippe Janet Elementary School0.7 mi · 868
- Allen Ellender School0.9 mi · 727
- Laureate Academy Charter School1.8 mi · 532
- Jefferson RISE Charter School2.2 mi · 764
Frequently asked questions
About Estelle SchoolHow large is Estelle School?
Estelle School enrolls approximately 518 students in grades PK-08.
Is Estelle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Estelle School is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does Estelle School have?
Estelle School employs 43 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Estelle School?
Student demographics at Estelle School are roughly 12% White, 28% Hispanic, 56% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Estelle School in?
Estelle School is part of Jefferson Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.