Geraldine Boudreaux Elementary School

Set in Terrytown, Louisiana, Geraldine Boudreaux Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school, part of Jefferson Parish. It works with 615 students across grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Geraldine Boudreaux Elementary School sits 36% above that benchmark.

Jefferson Parish comprises 74 schools with combined enrollment of 46,790 students; Geraldine Boudreaux Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Geraldine Boudreaux Elementary School shows that 56% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 31% Black, 7% White, 3% Asian. By comparison, Jefferson Parish as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Geraldine Boudreaux Elementary School has 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Geraldine Boudreaux Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.2%; this one delivers 25.3%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Jefferson Parish) logs 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 Geraldine Boudreaux Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Athlos Academy of Jefferson Parish, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Geraldine Boudreaux Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Geraldine Boudreaux Elementary School at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 31.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Geraldine Boudreaux Elementary School has showed little movement, going from 624 students in 2018 to 615 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 37% to 56%. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

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