Enrollment
300
Elementary
DISTRICT 407 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH·NCES 220054000407
Park Elementary School
2680 Bogan Walk, Baton Rouge, LA 70802 · (225) 344-2145 · East Baton Rouge Parish
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL300 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 35% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
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
8.3:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.1:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
280 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 | 31 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 26 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 41 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 37 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 29 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 29 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 12 | 4% |
| Grade 7 | 19 | 6% |
| Grade 8 | 25 | 8% |
This year's kindergarten class (26) is about the same size as its 8th grade class (25).
Student demographics
5%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 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
27.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +3.0pp since 2022
Math
10.0%
LA avg 34.2% . -2.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 2 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 27.0% | 10.0% |
| 2024-25 | 39.0% | 15.0% |
| 2023-24 | 27.0% | 12.0% |
| 2022-23 | 24.0% | 12.0% |
% 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
19.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
17.1%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 17% 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 Park Elementary School
Park Elementary School's state test result (19.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Park Elementary School this school | 300 | 93.3% | 19.7% |
| Cherokee Park Elementary School Shreveport | 282 | 95.0% | 13.0% |
| Capitol Elementary School Baton Rouge | 321 | 91.9% | 18.2% |
| St. Landry Charter School Opelousas | 315 | 91.1% | N/A |
| Rosenwald Elementary School New Roads | 303 | 91.4% | 14.0% |
| Brentwood Elementary School Lake Charles | 272 | 93.0% | 20.7% |
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 Park Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In East Baton Rouge Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.7% | #456 of 583 | #33 of 49 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.0% | #554 of 582 ▼ 60 | #46 of 49 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #457 of 587 ▼ 152 | #30 of 50 ▼ 14 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.5pp | #267 of 540 | #15 of 36 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 300 | #541 of 714 | #47 of 67 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.3:1 | #6 of 655 | #1 of 60 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 5.2% | #641 of 655 | #55 of 60 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.3% | #78 of 705 | #13 of 65 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.9% | #147 of 197 | #14 of 17 |
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
300
+25 (+9%) vs 2020
-44% since 1990-91, when it was 532
Student : Teacher
8.3:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 300 | 36 | 8.3:1 | 93% (280) |
| 2023-24 | 343 | 29.7 | 11.5:1 | 85% (293) |
| 2022-23 | 336 | 20.5 | 16.4:1 | 95% (320) |
| 2020-21 | 275 | 18 | 15.3:1 | 83% (227) |
| 2017-18 | 286 | 16 | 17.9:1 | 95% (271) |
| 2015-16 | 323 | N/A | N/A | 84% (272) |
| 2010-11 | 397 | 31 | 12.8:1 | 99% (394) |
| 2000-01 | 507 | 33 | 15.4:1 | 98% (495) |
| 1990-91 | 532 | 40 | 13.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Park Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (286 to 300); teachers up 125% (16 to 36).
About Park Elementary School
Park Elementary School is an elementary school with a street address in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It educates 300 students in pre-K through 8. The typical figure for elementary schools in Louisiana is about 453 students.
Park Elementary School is one of the 83 schools that make up East Baton Rouge Parish (40,083 students in total).
Black students make up 97% of enrollment at Park Elementary School. For comparison, the population of East Baton Rouge Parish is roughly 44% Black. The school's diversity index is 5%, meaning two students picked at random have a 5% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Federal data list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers at Park Elementary School in 2024-25, for a ratio of 8.3:1. That is 5.6 students per teacher below the 14.0:1 average for elementary schools in Louisiana. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 93%. For comparison, public schools in East Baton Rouge Parish average 70%.
Park Elementary School is graded C+ by allk12, scoring above 35% of Louisiana public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Park Elementary School is 2.6 points above its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (19.7% versus 17.1%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Louisiana.
County data help place the school in context: in East Baton Rouge Parish, the median household income is $63,071, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and about 14% of people live in poverty. In all, East Baton Rouge Parish has 132 public schools and roughly 66,892 students.
Of nearby public schools, Capitol High School is the closest, at about 0.2 miles. Park Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Among 6 nearby schools that report test results, Park Elementary School ranks 4th on proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Mid-size, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Park Elementary School's enrollment climbed from 275 in 2020-21 to 300 in 2024-25. Students per teacher fell from 15.3 in 2020-21 to 8.3 in 2024-25.
Conversations here can range across school safety, transportation, and start times. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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
- Baton Rouge Magnet High SchoolHigh · 1,593 students
- Woodlawn High SchoolHigh · 1,331 students
- Liberty High SchoolHigh · 1,218 students
- IDEA BridgeCombined · 1,122 students
- Tara High SchoolHigh · 1,016 students
- BASIS Baton Rouge Materra CampusCombined · 888 students
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 Park Elementary schools
25 other US public schools in 19 states are named Park Elementary. Park Elementary School is the 18th largest of the 26.
- Park Elementary SchoolNew Iberia, LA · 440 students
- Park Elementary SchoolNewark, NJ · 747 students
- Park Elementary SchoolHamilton, GA · 628 students
- Park ElementaryAlhambra, CA · 581 students
- PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLAVON PARK, FL · 557 students
Nearby schools
- Capitol High School0.2 mi · 205
- Capitol Elementary School0.8 mi · 321
- Community School For Apprenticeship Learning0.9 mi · 290
- Madison Preparatory Academy0.9 mi · 621
- CSAL Elementary0.9 mi · 288
- Baton Rouge Magnet High School1.1 mi · 1,593
Frequently asked questions
About Park Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Park Elementary School?
Park Elementary School enrolls approximately 300 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does Park Elementary School serve?
Park Elementary School serves grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Park Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Park Elementary School is approximately 8.3:1 (36 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Park Elementary School?
Park Elementary School reports a student body of 1% White, 97% Black, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Park Elementary School?
Park 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.