G.T. Woods School

G.T. Woods School is a primary school of intimate scale in Kenner, Louisiana, one of the schools within Jefferson Parish, teacheing 375 students in grades pre-K through 8.

Across the 74 schools in Jefferson Parish (46,790 students total), G.T. Woods School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, G.T. Woods School lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 56% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 39% Black. By comparison, Jefferson Parish as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, G.T. Woods School logs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, G.T. Woods School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 33.7%; this one comes in at 14.7%, -19.1 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, Jefferson Parish reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,252 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 G.T. Woods School is one.

A.C. Alexander School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, G.T. Woods School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 27.1%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. G.T. Woods School's enrollment has grew 38% since 2018, when it stood at 271 (now 375). The Black share of enrollment decreased from 75% to 39% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

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