Greenlawn Terrace Elementary School

Located at 1500 38th Street, in Kenner, Louisiana, Greenlawn Terrace Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school that instructs 542 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Jefferson Parish.

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

On demographics, Greenlawn Terrace Elementary School reports that 69% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 17% Black, 10% White, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Greenlawn Terrace Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Louisiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 34.3%; Greenlawn Terrace Elementary School posts 16.3%, -18.0 points below that line.

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 roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Jefferson Parish runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 47,983 students), of which Greenlawn Terrace Elementary School is one.

Walter Schneckenburger Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Greenlawn Terrace Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Greenlawn Terrace Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 24.1%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Greenlawn Terrace Elementary School has showed little movement, going from 547 students in 2018 to 542 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 51% to 69% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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