Jefferson Terrace Academy

Jefferson Terrace Academy is a reasonably sized elementary school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, one of the schools within East Baton Rouge Parish. The school instructs 571 students in grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 453 students per school, that is 26% bigger than typical.

East Baton Rouge Parish comprises 83 schools with combined enrollment of 40,083 students; Jefferson Terrace Academy is among them.

On the student-mix side, Jefferson Terrace Academy logs that Black students make up the majority at 64%. The remainder comes out to 25% Hispanic, 8% White. The wider county runs roughly 44% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Jefferson Terrace Academy records 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Roughly 78% of students at Jefferson Terrace Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above East Baton Rouge Parish's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Jefferson Terrace Academy sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 28.0%; actual is 14.3%, a gap of -13.7 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (East Baton Rouge Parish) records that median household earnings sit near $63,071, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, East Baton Rouge Parish runs 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students), of which Jefferson Terrace Academy is one.

The closest other public school is Louisiana Key Academy Baton Rouge, roughly 1.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Jefferson Terrace Academy at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 49.5%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Jefferson Terrace Academy's enrollment has expanded 30% since 2018, when it stood at 440 (now 571). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 18% to 25%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

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