Magnolia Trace Elementary School

Magnolia Trace Elementary School is an elementary-level community of small scale in Mandeville, Louisiana, run under St. Tammany Parish, caters to 355 students in grades 2 through 3. Enrollment runs roughly 22% leaner than the state mean of about 453.

Magnolia Trace Elementary School is one of 55 schools operated by St. Tammany Parish, a district that enrolls 35,956 students overall.

Demographically, Magnolia Trace Elementary School records that White students make up the majority at 75%. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 6% Black. Compared to St. Tammany Parish overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, St. Tammany Parish runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Magnolia Trace Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.8%, the actual is 55.0%, a residual of -5.8 points.

Across the wider county, census data for St. Tammany Parish shows the typical household earns roughly $81,202 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across St. Tammany Parish's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,212 students), Magnolia Trace Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Lake Harbor Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Magnolia Trace Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Magnolia Trace Elementary School at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 61.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Magnolia Trace Elementary School has stayed largely flat, going from 352 students in 2018 to 355 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 79% to 75% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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