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What's one thing Joseph J. Davies Elementary School gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
593
Elementary
DISTRICT 523 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. BERNARD PARISH·NCES 220141001131
Joseph J. Davies Elementary School
4101 Mistrot Drive, Meraux, LA 70075 · (504) 267-7890 · St. Bernard Parish
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL593 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 71% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-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
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
343 students
DISTRICT 66% · 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 | 58 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 82 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 86 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 97 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 90 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 88 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (82) is 11% smaller than its 5th grade class (92).
Student demographics
59%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
50.0%
LA avg 41.8% . -10.0pp since 2022
Math
49.0%
LA avg 34.2% . -9.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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 10 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 9 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 50.0% | 49.0% |
| 2024-25 | 54.0% | 52.0% |
| 2023-24 | 58.0% | 51.0% |
| 2022-23 | 60.0% | 58.0% |
% 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
49.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.7%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 Joseph J. Davies Elementary School
Joseph J. Davies Elementary School's state test result (49.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph J. Davies Elementary School this school | 593 | 57.8% | 49.0% |
| Lacoste Elementary School Chalmette | 621 | 55.2% | 43.5% |
| Bonne Ecole Elementary School Slidell | 651 | 54.2% | 41.5% |
| Maplewood Elementary Sulphur | 640 | 53.9% | 45.8% |
| Leblanc Elementary School Abbeville | 624 | 63.0% | 43.5% |
| Prairie Elementary School Lafayette | 663 | 57.9% | 51.0% |
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 Joseph J. Davies Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In St. Bernard Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #112 of 583 | #1 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #136 of 582 ▼ 26 | #1 of 7 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #194 of 587 ▼ 44 | #3 of 7 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -9.5pp | #57 of 540 | #1 of 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 593 | #153 of 714 | #2 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #251 of 655 | #3 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.1% | #172 of 655 | #5 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 57.8% | #558 of 705 | #5 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.0% | #192 of 436 | N/A |
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
593
-56 (-9%) vs 2020
+24% since 1990-91, when it was 480
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 16.6:1
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 | 593 | 46.5 | 12.8:1 | 58% (343) |
| 2023-24 | 650 | 40.5 | 16.0:1 | 55% (360) |
| 2022-23 | 649 | 38.6 | 16.8:1 | 57% (368) |
| 2020-21 | 649 | 39 | 16.6:1 | 47% (304) |
| 2017-18 | 723 | 41.4 | 17.5:1 | 55% (398) |
| 2015-16 | 809 | N/A | N/A | 69% (561) |
| 2010-11 | 754 | 51 | 14.8:1 | 66% (501) |
| 2000-01 | 763 | 47 | 16.2:1 | 43% (325) |
| 1990-91 | 480 | 33 | 14.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Joseph J. Davies Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (723 to 593); teachers up 12% (41.4 to 46.5).
About Joseph J. Davies Elementary School
Joseph J. Davies Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school based in Meraux, Louisiana. A federal count lists 593 students at the school, in pre-K through 5. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Louisiana) has about 453 students.
Across its 12 schools, St. Bernard Parish enrolls 7,592 students. Joseph J. Davies Elementary School is one of those schools.
At 59%, White students outnumber all other groups at Joseph J. Davies Elementary School combined. After that, the student body is 22% Black, 11% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 3% Asian. That is close to the 58% White share among all St. Bernard Parish residents. By the diversity index, Joseph J. Davies Elementary School comes in at 59%.
Joseph J. Davies Elementary School's 46.5 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 12.8:1. That ratio is under the 14.0:1 average for elementary schools in Louisiana. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 58%.
allk12 grades Joseph J. Davies Elementary School a B+. The grade compares the school only with Louisiana public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On BeatsExpectations, Joseph J. Davies Elementary School is 6.3 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Louisiana schools.
In St. Bernard Parish (population about 44,419), median household income is about $58,651, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 18% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 12 public schools operate in St. Bernard Parish, serving about 7,592 students.
Of nearby public schools, N.P. Trist Middle School is the closest, at about 0.7 miles. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On proficiency, Joseph J. Davies Elementary School is ahead of the 32.6% nearby average, ranking 1st of 7.
NCES assigns Joseph J. Davies Elementary School the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count in 2024-25 was 593, 9% below the 649 of 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 12.8 students per teacher, compared with 16.6 in 2020-21.
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St. Bernard Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
44,419
Census ACS
Median income
$58,651
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
18%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
18%
Below federal line
Schools in county
12
7,592 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in St. Bernard Parish
- Chalmette High SchoolHigh · 2,193 students
- N.P. Trist Middle SchoolMiddle · 767 students
- Lacoste Elementary SchoolElementary · 621 students
- Arlene Meraux Elementary SchoolElementary · 583 students
- Arabi Elementary SchoolElementary · 567 students
- Andrew Jackson Middle SchoolMiddle · 546 students
Nearby schools
- N.P. Trist Middle School0.7 mi · 767
- Lacoste Elementary School1.4 mi · 621
- Chalmette High School1.9 mi · 2,193
- Arlene Meraux Elementary School2.5 mi · 583
- Chalmette Elementary School3.3 mi · 467
- C.F. Rowley Alternative School3.4 mi · 103
Frequently asked questions
About Joseph J. Davies Elementary SchoolHow large is Joseph J. Davies Elementary School?
Joseph J. Davies Elementary School enrolls approximately 593 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Joseph J. Davies Elementary School serve?
Joseph J. Davies Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Joseph J. Davies Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Joseph J. Davies Elementary School is approximately 12.8:1 (46 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Joseph J. Davies Elementary School?
Student demographics at Joseph J. Davies Elementary School are roughly 59% White, 11% Hispanic, 22% Black, 3% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Joseph J. Davies Elementary School?
Joseph J. Davies Elementary School is overseen by St. Bernard Parish in St. Bernard Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.