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What's the one class at Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School every student should take?
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Enrollment
384
Elementary
DISTRICT 539 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JEFFERSON PARISH·NCES 220084000618
Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School
8809 Jefferson Highway, River Ridge, LA 70123 · (504) 737-6163 · Jefferson Parish
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL384 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 30% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Louisiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
269 students
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 70%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 28 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 30 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 39 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 32 | 8% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 45 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 42 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 39 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 35 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (30) is 14% smaller than its 8th grade class (35).
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 65% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
35.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +1.0pp since 2022
Math
29.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +10.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 10 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 35.0% | 29.0% |
| 2024-25 | 34.0% | 25.0% |
| 2023-24 | 34.0% | 17.0% |
| 2022-23 | 34.0% | 19.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
25.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.9%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Louisiana's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School
Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School's state test result (25.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School this school | 384 | 70.1% | 25.7% |
| Perrin Early Learning Center Ponchatoula | 338 | 72.2% | N/A |
| Florida Avenue Elementary School Slidell | 440 | 68.6% | 22.2% |
| Bayou Woods Elementary School Slidell | 431 | 71.2% | 33.0% |
| Hillcrest Elementary School Ruston | 326 | 66.9% | N/A |
| Chahta-Ima Elementary School Lacombe | 319 | 65.5% | 38.5% |
Matched among Louisiana elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Jefferson Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.7% | #375 of 583 | #26 of 50 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.0% | #330 of 582 ▲ 42 | #16 of 48 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #346 of 587 ▲ 15 | #17 of 50 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.5pp | #114 of 540 | #7 of 46 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 384 | #418 of 714 | #42 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.0:1 | #42 of 655 | #2 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.0% | #45 of 655 | #9 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.1% | #410 of 705 | #27 of 51 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.3% | #435 of 436 | #22 of 22 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
384
-72 (-16%) vs 2020
-27% since 1990-91, when it was 525
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
was 19.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 384 | 38.3 | 10.0:1 | 70% (269) |
| 2023-24 | 413 | 38.8 | 10.7:1 | 57% (235) |
| 2022-23 | 462 | 27.9 | 16.6:1 | 64% (297) |
| 2020-21 | 456 | 24 | 19.0:1 | 68% (311) |
| 2017-18 | 385 | 20 | 19.3:1 | 50% (192) |
| 2015-16 | 413 | 42 | 9.8:1 | 72% (296) |
| 2010-11 | 333 | 30 | 11.1:1 | 73% (243) |
| 2000-01 | 400 | 33 | 12.1:1 | 53% (210) |
| 1990-91 | 525 | 28 | 18.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (385 to 384); teachers up 91% (20 to 38.3).
About Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School
Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School is a small elementary school with its address in River Ridge, Louisiana. The school covers pre-K through 8 and reported 384 students in 2024-25.
Jefferson Parish runs 74 schools with a combined 46,790 students. Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School is one of them.
About 37% of students at Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School are Black, the largest single group. Other reported shares: 34% White and 26% Hispanic. Jefferson Parish's residents are about 26% Black, 11 points below the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 68, compared with 70 nationally.
The school lists 38.3 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.0:1. The average for elementary schools in Louisiana, 14.0:1, is higher. A total of 269 students, or 70%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Jefferson Parish average a similar 68%.
Among Louisiana public elementary schools, Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School outscored 30%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
The model predicts 33.9% for a school in Louisiana with Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School posts 25.7%.
The school's county is Jefferson Parish. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $65,252 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 31% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 13%. Public schools in Jefferson Parish number 86, with about 47,983 students.
The closest school to Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School is Harahan School, located about 1.1 miles away. Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Nearby schools average 20.8% on proficiency, and Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School is above that at 25.7%.
The NCES locale for Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased from 456 to 384, a 16% decline. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 19.0:1; by 2024-25 it was 10.0:1.
Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as special education services, counseling, and support programs. You can also rate the school on this page.
Jefferson Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
430,920
Census ACS
Median income
$65,252
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
86
47,983 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Jefferson Parish
- Bonnabel Magnet Academy High SchoolHigh · 2,376 students
- Kenner Discovery Health Sciences AcademyCombined · 2,263 students
- John Ehret High SchoolHigh · 1,850 students
- West Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,438 students
- East Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,381 students
- Riverdale High SchoolHigh · 1,259 students
Nearby schools
- Harahan School1.1 mi · 390
- Lucille Cherbonnier School1.7 mi · 466
- Ralph J Bunche Elementary2.3 mi · 470
- Jefferson Virtual High School2.5 mi · 67
- Riverside Alternative High School2.7 mi · 27
- Strehle Community School2.8 mi · 145
Frequently asked questions
About Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School?
Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School enrolls approximately 384 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School serve?
Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School?
Approximately 10.0:1 students per teacher at Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School.
How diverse is Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School?
Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School reports a student body of 34% White, 26% Hispanic, 37% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School public or private?
Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Jefferson Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.