Parkview Elementary School

Parkview Elementary School is one of the medium-sized K-5 schools in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, one of the schools within East Baton Rouge Parish, with 499 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Parkview Elementary School reports that the largest single group is Black at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 26% White, 10% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Parkview Elementary School has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 68% of students at Parkview Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Parkview Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.6%; this one delivers 50.3%.

Across the wider county, East Baton Rouge Parish reports that median household income runs about $63,071, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across East Baton Rouge Parish's 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students), Parkview Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Louisiana Key Academy Baton Rouge, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Parkview Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 34.7%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Parkview Elementary School has ticked down 17%, going from 601 students in 2018 to 499 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 32% to 26%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 23.1:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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