Florida Avenue Elementary School

As a medium-sized elementary school in Slidell, Louisiana, Florida Avenue Elementary School hosts 440 students from grades pre-K through 6, part of St. Tammany Parish.

St. Tammany Parish comprises 55 schools with combined enrollment of 35,956 students; Florida Avenue Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Florida Avenue Elementary School records that the largest single group is White at 38%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 34% Black, 20% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, St. Tammany Parish as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 69% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, St. Tammany Parish runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Florida Avenue Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.0%, the actual is 23.0%, a residual of -12.0 points.

In the surrounding community, St. Tammany Parish reports that the typical household earns roughly $81,202 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Florida Avenue Elementary School is one of 56 public schools in St. Tammany Parish (combined enrollment of about 36,212 students).

The closest other public school is Slidell Junior High School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Florida Avenue Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Florida Avenue Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 30.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 21%: 557 students in 2018 compared to 440 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 47% to 38% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

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