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Best kept secret at Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School?
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Enrollment
414
Elementary
DISTRICT 539 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JEFFERSON PARISH·NCES 220084000579
Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School
500 Pine Street, Marrero, LA 70072 · (504) 347-0254 · Jefferson Parish
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL414 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 18% 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
13.7:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
352 students
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 70%
Community
4
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 | 33 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 53 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 68 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 59 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 54 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (54).
Student demographics
58%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
28.0%
LA avg 41.8% . -1.0pp since 2022
Math
15.0%
LA avg 34.2% . -3.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 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 1 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 3 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 28.0% | 15.0% |
| 2024-25 | 28.0% | 20.0% |
| 2023-24 | 25.0% | 10.0% |
| 2022-23 | 29.0% | 18.0% |
% 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
19.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.1%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% 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 Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School
Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School's state test result (19.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School this school | 414 | 85.0% | 19.2% |
| Wedgewood Elementary School Baton Rouge | 456 | 82.9% | 20.8% |
| Midway Elementary School Tickfaw | 440 | 86.4% | 21.3% |
| R. V. Kerr Elementary School Bossier City | 367 | 81.5% | 23.8% |
| Magnolia Woods Elementary School Baton Rouge | 409 | 84.1% | 26.5% |
| Lucille Cherbonnier School Waggaman | 466 | 86.1% | 11.6% |
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 Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Jefferson Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.2% | #460 of 583 | #39 of 50 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.0% | #502 of 582 ▼ 75 | #38 of 48 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.0% | #440 of 587 ▼ 5 | #33 of 50 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.0pp | #195 of 540 | #13 of 46 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 414 | #381 of 714 | #39 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #375 of 655 | #36 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.3% | #195 of 655 | #26 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.0% | #203 of 705 | #4 of 51 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.3% | #129 of 197 | #20 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
414
+88 (+27%) vs 2020
+9% since 1990-91, when it was 379
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 18.1:1
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 | 414 | 30.2 | 13.7:1 | 85% (352) |
| 2023-24 | 409 | 29.5 | 13.9:1 | 75% (305) |
| 2022-23 | 330 | 20.9 | 15.8:1 | 83% (274) |
| 2020-21 | 326 | 18 | 18.1:1 | 78% (254) |
| 2017-18 | 386 | 23 | 16.8:1 | 72% (276) |
| 2015-16 | 433 | 34 | 12.7:1 | 94% (409) |
| 2010-11 | 371 | 26 | 14.3:1 | 96% (355) |
| 2000-01 | 321 | 22 | 14.6:1 | 96% (307) |
| 1990-91 | 379 | 23 | 16.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 7% (386 to 414); teachers up 31% (23 to 30.2).
About Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School
A mid-sized elementary school in Marrero, Louisiana, Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School is part of Jefferson Parish. It teaches 414 students in pre-K through 5.
Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School is run by Jefferson Parish, whose 74 schools enroll 46,790 students.
The student body at Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School is 59% Black. Other reported shares: 21% Hispanic, 13% White, and 5% multiracial. Jefferson Parish's residents are about 26% Black, 34 points below the school's share. A diversity index of 58% means there is a 58% chance two randomly chosen students at Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School are from different groups.
Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School reported 30.2 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 13.7:1. The average for elementary schools in Louisiana is about 14.0:1. Roughly 85% of students at Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 68% average among public schools in Jefferson Parish.
Among Louisiana public elementary schools, Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School outscored 18%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
In Louisiana, Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 19.2% actual against a predicted 23.1%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Jefferson Parish show that median household income comes to about $65,252, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 31% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 13%. The county's public schools total 86, with about 47,983 students.
Among nearby public schools, Lincoln School for the Arts is closest at about 0.5 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 20.4%, higher than Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School's 19.2%.
Locale data from NCES put Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
The school's student count increased 27% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. The number of students per teacher dropped from 18.1 to 13.7 over 4 years.
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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 Marrero
- John Ehret High SchoolHigh · 1,850 students
- L.W. Higgins High SchoolHigh · 1,136 students
- Congetta Trippe Janet Elementary SchoolElementary · 868 students
- Allen Ellender SchoolElementary · 727 students
- Harry S Truman SchoolElementary · 717 students
- L.H. Marrero Middle SchoolMiddle · 619 students
Nearby schools
- Lincoln School for the Arts0.5 mi · 467
- Isaac G Joseph Elementary School1.3 mi · 439
- L.H. Marrero Middle School1.3 mi · 619
- L.W. Higgins High School1.3 mi · 1,136
- Ella C. Pittman Elementary School1.7 mi · 471
- John Ehret High School1.7 mi · 1,850
Frequently asked questions
About Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary SchoolHow large is Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School?
Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School enrolls approximately 414 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School serve?
Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School?
Approximately 13.7:1 students per teacher at Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School?
At Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School, the student body is approximately 13% White, 21% Hispanic, 59% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School public or private?
Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Jefferson Parish.
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