Lucille Cherbonnier School

Lucille Cherbonnier School is one of the medium-sized elementary schools in Waggaman, Louisiana, operated by Jefferson Parish, with 466 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8.

Within Jefferson Parish, which oversees 74 schools and 46,790 students, Lucille Cherbonnier School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lucille Cherbonnier School shows that the largest single group is Black, at 68% of enrollment; the rest looks like 18% Hispanic, 10% White, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

On the resource side, Lucille Cherbonnier School reports 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. The state averages about 14.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Jefferson Parish (around 68%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lucille Cherbonnier School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.6%; this one delivers 11.0%.

In the surrounding community, Jefferson Parish reports that median household earnings sit near $65,252, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Lucille Cherbonnier School is one of 86 public schools in Jefferson Parish (combined enrollment of about 47,983 students).

Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lucille Cherbonnier School. On composite proficiency, Lucille Cherbonnier School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 22.9%.

Lucille Cherbonnier School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Looking at the recent track record. Lucille Cherbonnier School's enrollment has increased 55% since 2018, when it stood at 301 (now 466). White enrollment moved from 17% to 10% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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