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Enrollment
440
Elementary
DISTRICT 538 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. TAMMANY PARISH·NCES 220165001278
Florida Avenue Elementary School
342 Florida Avenue, Slidell, LA 70458 · (985) 643-1605 · St. Tammany Parish
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL440 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 14% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-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
10.4:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
302 students
DISTRICT 48% · 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 | 50 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 47 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 61 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 56 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 60 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is 22% smaller than its 6th grade class (60).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · 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
35.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +0.0pp since 2022
Math
20.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +2.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2022, while math scores are up about 2 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 35.0% | 20.0% |
| 2024-25 | 27.0% | 19.0% |
| 2023-24 | 32.0% | 16.0% |
| 2022-23 | 35.0% | 18.0% |
% 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
22.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.9%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 35% 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 Florida Avenue Elementary School
Florida Avenue Elementary School's state test result (22.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida Avenue Elementary School this school | 440 | 68.6% | 22.2% |
| Bayou Woods Elementary School Slidell | 431 | 71.2% | 33.0% |
| Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School River Ridge | 384 | 70.1% | 25.7% |
| Perrin Early Learning Center Ponchatoula | 338 | 72.2% | N/A |
| Hillcrest Elementary School Ruston | 326 | 66.9% | N/A |
| Chahta-Ima Elementary School Lacombe | 319 | 65.5% | 38.5% |
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 Florida Avenue Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In St. Tammany Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.2% | #420 of 583 | #22 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.0% | #445 of 582 ▲ 5 | #21 of 23 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #350 of 587 ▲ 104 | #21 of 23 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.0pp | #260 of 540 | #6 of 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 440 | #330 of 714 | #18 of 29 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.4:1 | #54 of 655 | #5 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.5% | #26 of 655 | #3 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.6% | #426 of 705 | #6 of 28 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.0% | #146 of 436 | #2 of 15 |
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
440
+51 (+13%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 457
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
was 11.8:1
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 | 440 | 42.5 | 10.4:1 | 69% (302) |
| 2023-24 | 478 | 42.1 | 11.4:1 | 67% (319) |
| 2022-23 | 492 | 29.4 | 16.8:1 | 66% (324) |
| 2020-21 | 389 | 33 | 11.8:1 | 73% (284) |
| 2017-18 | 557 | 33.2 | 16.8:1 | 75% (418) |
| 2015-16 | 575 | 46 | 12.5:1 | 80% (462) |
| 2010-11 | 598 | 45 | 13.3:1 | 71% (425) |
| 2000-01 | 472 | 32 | 14.8:1 | 62% (293) |
| 1990-91 | 457 | 27 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Florida Avenue Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (557 to 440); teachers up 28% (33.2 to 42.5).
About Florida Avenue Elementary School
Florida Avenue Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school found in Slidell, Louisiana. Enrollment stands at 440 students, covering pre-K through 6.
Florida Avenue Elementary School is part of St. Tammany Parish, where 55 schools serve 35,956 students.
At Florida Avenue Elementary School, White students make up the biggest share, 38%. Smaller groups are 34% Black, 20% Hispanic, and 8% multiracial. County-wide, 74% of St. Tammany Parish residents are White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 69%.
The school lists 42.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.4:1. The average for elementary schools in Louisiana, 14.0:1, is higher. A total of 302 students, or 69%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 44% for public schools in St. Tammany Parish.
Among Louisiana public elementary schools, Florida Avenue Elementary School outscored 14%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. Florida Avenue Elementary School posts 22.2% against a 34.9% prediction, a bottom-10% result in Louisiana.
In St. Tammany Parish, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $81,202, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and about 9% of people live in poverty. There are 56 public schools in the county, enrolling about 36,212, Florida Avenue Elementary School among them.
Slidell Junior High School is about 0.3 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of Florida Avenue Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Florida Avenue Elementary School is 6th of 7 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The school's locale code, City: Small, means it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
A 13% rise took enrollment from 389 in 2020-21 to 440 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 11.8:1; by 2024-25 it was 10.4:1.
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St. Tammany Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
272,421
Census ACS
Median income
$81,202
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
56
36,212 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in St. Tammany Parish
- Mandeville High SchoolHigh · 2,006 students
- Slidell High SchoolHigh · 1,654 students
- Covington High SchoolHigh · 1,600 students
- Northshore High SchoolHigh · 1,518 students
- Joseph B. Lancaster Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,480 students
- Fontainebleau High SchoolHigh · 1,451 students
Other schools in Slidell
- Slidell High SchoolHigh · 1,654 students
- Northshore High SchoolHigh · 1,518 students
- Salmen High SchoolHigh · 1,091 students
- W.L. Abney ElementaryElementary · 936 students
- Little Oak Middle SchoolMiddle · 847 students
- Henry Mayfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 749 students
Nearby schools
- Slidell Junior High School0.3 mi · 724
- Slidell High School0.4 mi · 1,654
- Bonne Ecole Elementary School0.8 mi · 651
- Glynn H. Brock Elementary School0.9 mi · 345
- St. Tammany Junior High School1.1 mi · 686
- Carolyn Park Middle1.5 mi · 233
Frequently asked questions
About Florida Avenue Elementary SchoolHow large is Florida Avenue Elementary School?
Florida Avenue Elementary School enrolls approximately 440 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does Florida Avenue Elementary School serve?
Florida Avenue Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Florida Avenue Elementary School?
Approximately 10.4:1 students per teacher at Florida Avenue Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Florida Avenue Elementary School?
At Florida Avenue Elementary School, the student body is approximately 38% White, 20% Hispanic, 34% Black, 8% Two or more.
Is Florida Avenue Elementary School public or private?
Florida Avenue Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by St. Tammany Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.