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Enrollment
572
Elementary
DISTRICT 539 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JEFFERSON PARISH·NCES 220084001512
John James Audubon School
200 West Loyola Drive, Kenner, LA 70065 · (504) 466-0525 · Jefferson Parish
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL572 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
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.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+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
12.8:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
74%
425 students
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 70%
Community
5
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 | 36 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 43 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 45 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 72 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 52 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 65 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 75 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 56 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (43) is 23% smaller than its 8th grade class (56).
Student demographics
57%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
34.0%
LA avg 41.8% . -2.0pp since 2022
Math
21.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +1.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 1 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 34.0% | 21.0% |
| 2024-25 | 35.0% | 26.0% |
| 2023-24 | 35.0% | 19.0% |
| 2022-23 | 36.0% | 20.0% |
% 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
26.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.8%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% 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 John James Audubon School
John James Audubon School's state test result (26.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| John James Audubon School this school | 572 | 74.3% | 26.2% |
| Geraldine Boudreaux Elementary School Terrytown | 615 | 72.5% | 26.5% |
| Shirley Johnson/Gretna Park Elementary School Gretna | 671 | 72.1% | 23.0% |
| A.C. Alexander School Kenner | 567 | 71.8% | 28.0% |
| Bridgedale Elementary School Metairie | 491 | 70.5% | 28.7% |
| Greenlawn Terrace Elementary School Kenner | 542 | 69.6% | 16.5% |
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 John James Audubon School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Jefferson Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.2% | #367 of 583 | #24 of 50 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.0% | #427 of 582 ▼ 68 | #31 of 48 ▼ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #363 of 587 ▼ 10 | #21 of 50 ▼ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.5pp | #244 of 540 | #20 of 46 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 572 | #179 of 714 | #22 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #257 of 655 | #23 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.0% | #218 of 655 | #30 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 74.3% | #347 of 705 | #16 of 51 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +16.5% | #76 of 197 | #14 of 26 |
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
572
+8 (+1%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 657
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 18.8:1
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 | 572 | 44.6 | 12.8:1 | 74% (425) |
| 2023-24 | 604 | 45 | 13.4:1 | 56% (336) |
| 2022-23 | 648 | 34.5 | 18.8:1 | 61% (393) |
| 2020-21 | 564 | 30 | 18.8:1 | 83% (468) |
| 2017-18 | 491 | 26 | 18.9:1 | 48% (234) |
| 2015-16 | 451 | 38 | 11.9:1 | 87% (392) |
| 2010-11 | 390 | 29 | 13.4:1 | 85% (333) |
| 2000-01 | 510 | 35 | 14.6:1 | 81% (415) |
| 1990-91 | 657 | 37 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for John James Audubon School.
Since 2017-18: students up 16% (491 to 572); teachers up 72% (26 to 44.6).
About John James Audubon School
John James Audubon School operates as a mid-sized elementary school in Kenner, Louisiana. It enrolls 572 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 8. That puts enrollment 26% larger than the 453-student average for elementary schools in Louisiana.
Across its 74 schools, Jefferson Parish enrolls 46,790 students. John James Audubon School is one of those schools.
More than half of enrollment at John James Audubon School is Hispanic: 60%. Next come 24% Black, 12% White, and 2% Asian. The county population is about 19% Hispanic. The diversity index for John James Audubon School is 57%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Classroom staffing at John James Audubon School totals 44.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 12.8:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Louisiana average 14.0:1. Federal data show 74% of students (425) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among Louisiana public elementary schools, John James Audubon School outscored 30%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, John James Audubon School is 4.7 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 26.2% actual, 30.8% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Louisiana.
The county, Jefferson Parish, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $65,252, about 31% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 13% of residents are in poverty. The county has 86 public schools and about 47,983 students.
A.C. Alexander School, about 0.7 miles away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. On state test proficiency, John James Audubon School ranks 5th in a group of 8 nearby schools.
NCES describes the area around John James Audubon School as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 564 in 2020-21 and 572 in 2024-25. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 12.8:1, from 18.8:1.
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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
Other schools in Kenner
- Bonnabel Magnet Academy High SchoolHigh · 2,376 students
- Kenner Discovery Health Sciences AcademyCombined · 2,263 students
- Tom Benson SchoolElementary · 631 students
- Chateau Estates SchoolElementary · 610 students
- A.C. Alexander SchoolElementary · 567 students
- John Clancy/Joseph Maggiore Elementary SchoolElementary · 545 students
Nearby schools
- A.C. Alexander School0.7 mi · 567
- G.T. Woods School1.3 mi · 375
- Chateau Estates School1.5 mi · 610
- Greenlawn Terrace Elementary School1.8 mi · 542
- Walter Schneckenburger Elem School2.5 mi · 327
- Tom Benson School2.6 mi · 631
Frequently asked questions
About John James Audubon SchoolHow large is John James Audubon School?
John James Audubon School enrolls approximately 572 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does John James Audubon School serve?
John James Audubon School serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at John James Audubon School?
Approximately 12.8:1 students per teacher at John James Audubon School.
What is the student diversity at John James Audubon School?
Student demographics at John James Audubon School are roughly 12% White, 60% Hispanic, 24% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is John James Audubon School public or private?
John James Audubon 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.