Harahan School

Set in Harahan, Louisiana, Harahan School is an average-sized K-5 school, part of Jefferson Parish. It caters to 390 students across grades pre-K through 8.

Harahan School is one of 74 schools operated by Jefferson Parish, a district that enrolls 46,790 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Harahan School logs that the most-represented group is White (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 34% Black, 17% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 50%.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Harahan School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 71% of students at Harahan School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Harahan School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.5%; this one delivers 26.7%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Jefferson Parish) records 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 Harahan School is one.

Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Harahan School. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Harahan School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 19.0%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Harahan School has ticked down 21%, going from 493 students in 2018 to 390 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 52% to 38% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 22.4:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 in 2025.

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