Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School

Located at 500 Pine Street, in Marrero, Louisiana, Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community that hosts 414 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Jefferson Parish.

Within Jefferson Parish, which oversees 74 schools and 46,790 students, Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School logs that 59% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest looks like 21% Hispanic, 13% White, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 26% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Jefferson Parish (around 68%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.3%; this one delivers 15.3%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Jefferson Parish shows median household income runs about $65,252, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Jefferson Parish runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 47,983 students), of which Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School is one.

Lincoln School for the Arts is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 19.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School's enrollment has rose 7% since 2018, when it stood at 386 (now 414). Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 69% to 59%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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