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New Sarpy Elementary School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About New Sarpy Elementary School
New Sarpy Elementary School is a K-5 school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Destrehan, Louisiana, overseen by St. Charles Parish, educateing 417 students in grades pre-K through 2.
St. Charles Parish runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 8,756 students. New Sarpy Elementary School is one of those campuses.
On demographics, New Sarpy Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 27% Black, 15% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, St. Charles Parish as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, New Sarpy Elementary School logs 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.0:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 38% of students at New Sarpy Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below St. Charles Parish's rate of about 48%.
Around the school, community-level numbers for St. Charles Parish indicate median household earnings sit near $80,897, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across St. Charles Parish's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,756 students), New Sarpy Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
New Sarpy Elementary School operates from a residential location.
Looking at the recent track record. New Sarpy Elementary School's enrollment has rose 5% since 2018, when it stood at 397 (now 417). Hispanic enrollment moved from 6% to 15% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 in 2025.
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