McKinley Elementary

As a medium-sized K-5 school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, McKinley Elementary educates 628 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under East Baton Rouge Parish. Compared to the state average of about 453 students per school, that is 39% above typical.

East Baton Rouge Parish runs 83 schools in total, collectively educating 40,083 students. McKinley Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, McKinley Elementary logs that 73% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest looks like 13% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 44% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Around 78% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, East Baton Rouge Parish runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), McKinley Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.2%, the actual is 24.7%, a residual of -3.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (East Baton Rouge Parish) logs that the typical household earns roughly $63,071 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across East Baton Rouge Parish's 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students), McKinley Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Eva Legard Learning Center, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), McKinley Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 44.1%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.