Enrollment
227
Elementary
DISTRICT 407 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH·NCES 220054000398
Melrose Elementary School
1348 Valcour St, Baton Rouge, LA 70806 · (225) 926-2353 · East Baton Rouge Parish
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL227 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 19% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
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
11.6:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.1:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
219 students
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 70%
Community
0
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 | 16 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 39 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 35 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 39 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 32 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 34 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 32 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (39) is 22% larger than its 5th grade class (32).
Student demographics
6%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · 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 2024-25 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
26.0%
LA avg 41.4% . -3.0pp since 2022
Math
13.0%
LA avg 33.2% . -2.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 41 and 33. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 2 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.0% | 13.0% |
| 2023-24 | 20.0% | 9.0% |
| 2022-23 | 29.0% | 15.0% |
% 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
15.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
14.8%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 15% 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 Melrose Elementary School
Melrose Elementary School's state test result (15.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melrose Elementary School this school | 227 | 96.5% | 15.2% |
| Barkdull Faulk Elementary School Monroe | 212 | 96.2% | 16.8% |
| Queensborough Elementary School Shreveport | 212 | 96.2% | 15.2% |
| Ryan Elementary School Baton Rouge | 205 | 96.6% | 18.2% |
| Alma Redwine Elementary Alexandria | 225 | 98.7% | 20.0% |
| Clara Hall Accelerated School Monroe | 260 | 96.5% | N/A |
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 Melrose Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In East Baton Rouge Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.2% | #511 of 583 | #41 of 49 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.0% | #526 of 582 ▲ 27 | #42 of 49 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.0% | #472 of 587 ▲ 54 | #32 of 50 ▲ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 227 | #626 of 714 | #56 of 67 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.6:1 | #130 of 655 | #14 of 60 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 6.0% | #634 of 655 | #50 of 60 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.5% | #33 of 705 | #5 of 65 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -49.6% | #11 of 436 | #4 of 39 |
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
227
-109 (-32%) vs 2020
-59% since 1990-91, when it was 556
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
was 14.0:1
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 | 227 | 19.5 | 11.6:1 | 96% (219) |
| 2023-24 | 318 | 19.2 | 16.5:1 | 88% (281) |
| 2022-23 | 330 | 17 | 19.4:1 | 94% (311) |
| 2020-21 | 336 | 24 | 14.0:1 | 83% (280) |
| 2017-18 | 450 | 27.9 | 16.1:1 | 90% (405) |
| 2015-16 | 480 | N/A | N/A | 84% (402) |
| 2010-11 | 649 | 50 | 13.0:1 | 97% (631) |
| 2000-01 | 349 | 27 | 12.9:1 | 96% (336) |
| 1990-91 | 556 | 27 | 20.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Melrose Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 50% (450 to 227); teachers down 30% (27.9 to 19.5).
About Melrose Elementary School
Melrose Elementary School is a small elementary school in East Baton Rouge Parish, located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Enrollment stands at 227 students, covering pre-K through 5. It has 50% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in Louisiana (about 453).
Melrose Elementary School is in East Baton Rouge Parish, a district with 40,083 students across 83 schools.
The share of Black students at Melrose Elementary School is 97%. Other groups make up 3% Hispanic. East Baton Rouge Parish as a whole is about 44% Black, so the school's share is higher. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Melrose Elementary School scores 6%.
The school lists 19.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.6:1. Compared with the 14.0:1 average for elementary schools in Louisiana, this school's ratio is lower. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 96% of the student body. Compared with the 70% average for public schools in East Baton Rouge Parish, the school's rate is higher.
Melrose Elementary School earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 19% of Louisiana public elementary schools.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Melrose Elementary School is within a point of its prediction. Actual: 15.2%. Predicted: 14.8%.
For East Baton Rouge Parish, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $63,071, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and roughly 14% of residents are in poverty. The county has 132 public schools and about 66,892 students.
A public school about 0.1 miles away, Capitol Middle School, is the closest to Melrose Elementary School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Melrose Elementary School comes in 4th of 5 nearby schools on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Mid-size, or inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Federal enrollment counts fell from 336 (2020-21) to 227 (2024-25). Federal data show the ratio falling from 14.0:1 to 11.6:1.
On allk12, people connected to Melrose Elementary School can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
East Baton Rouge Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
452,938
Census ACS
Median income
$63,071
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
14%
Below federal line
Schools in county
132
66,892 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in East Baton Rouge Parish
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- Woodlawn High SchoolHigh · 1,331 students
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Other schools in Baton Rouge
- University View Academy Inc. (FRM LA Connections)Combined · 3,725 students
- Louisiana Virtual Charter AcademyCombined · 2,239 students
- Baton Rouge Magnet High SchoolHigh · 1,593 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 1,529 students
- LSU Laboratory SchoolCombined · 1,463 students
- Woodlawn High SchoolHigh · 1,331 students
Other Melrose Elementary schools
9 other US public schools in 8 states are named Melrose Elementary. Melrose Elementary School is the 9th largest of the 10.
- MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMIAMI, FL · 518 students
- MELROSE ELEMENTARYMELROSE, MN · 512 students
- MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLST PETERSBURG, FL · 356 students
- Melrose ElementaryPlacentia, CA · 354 students
- MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMELROSE, FL · 353 students
Nearby schools
- Capitol Middle School0.1 mi · 413
- Belfair Montessori School0.8 mi · 274
- Capitol Elementary School0.8 mi · 321
- Louisiana Virtual Charter Academy0.9 mi · 2,239
- Louisiana Rebirth Blended Learning Academy0.9 mi · 444
- GEO Prep Mid-City of Greater Baton Rouge1.1 mi · 686
Frequently asked questions
About Melrose Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Melrose Elementary School?
Melrose Elementary School enrolls approximately 227 students in grades PK-05.
Is Melrose Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Melrose Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Melrose Elementary School?
Approximately 11.6:1 students per teacher at Melrose Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Melrose Elementary School?
Student demographics at Melrose Elementary School are roughly 3% Hispanic, 97% Black, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees Melrose Elementary School?
Melrose Elementary School is overseen by East Baton Rouge Parish in East Baton Rouge Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.