John Clancy/Joseph Maggiore Elementary School

Set in Kenner, Louisiana, John Clancy/Joseph Maggiore Elementary School is a mid-tier elementary-level community, overseen by Jefferson Parish. It teaches 545 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 20% bigger than the state mean of about 453.

John Clancy/Joseph Maggiore Elementary School is one of 74 schools operated by Jefferson Parish, a district that enrolls 46,790 students overall.

On demographics, John Clancy/Joseph Maggiore Elementary School shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 65%. The remainder is composed of 21% Black, 10% White, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting John Clancy/Joseph Maggiore Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 58% of students at John Clancy/Joseph Maggiore Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Jefferson Parish runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, John Clancy/Joseph Maggiore Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 42.4%; actual is 28.0%, a gap of -14.4 points.

Across the wider county, Jefferson Parish reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,252 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Jefferson Parish's 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 47,983 students), John Clancy/Joseph Maggiore Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Kenner Discovery Health Sciences Academy, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts John Clancy/Joseph Maggiore Elementary School at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 32.7%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 14%: 633 students in 2018 compared to 545 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 36% to 21%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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