George Cox Elementary School

George Cox Elementary School is one of the reasonably sized elementary schools in Gretna, Louisiana, one of the schools within Jefferson Parish, with 402 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Within Jefferson Parish, which oversees 74 schools and 46,790 students, George Cox Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, George Cox Elementary School reports that 52% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 32% Black, 12% White, 2% Asian. By comparison, Jefferson Parish as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, George Cox Elementary School lists 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 68% of students at George Cox Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, George Cox Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.0%.

Across the wider county, Jefferson Parish reports that median household earnings sit near $65,252, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Jefferson Parish runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 47,983 students), of which George Cox Elementary School is one.

Geraldine Boudreaux Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around George Cox Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts George Cox Elementary School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 30.3%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at George Cox Elementary School has shrank 6%, going from 426 students in 2018 to 402 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 45% to 32% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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