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Enrollment
499
Elementary
DISTRICT 407 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH·NCES 220054000411
Parkview Elementary School
5660 Park Forest, Baton Rouge, LA 70816 · (225) 753-5615 · East Baton Rouge Parish
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL499 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 82% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-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
13.3:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.1:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
338 students
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 70%
Community
5
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 | 30 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 71 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 78 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 84 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 76 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 79 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (71) is 10% smaller than its 5th grade class (79).
Student demographics
64%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
59.0%
LA avg 41.8% . -8.0pp since 2022
Math
47.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +0.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2022, while math scores have held steady.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 59.0% | 47.0% |
| 2024-25 | 53.0% | 48.0% |
| 2023-24 | 60.0% | 48.0% |
| 2022-23 | 67.0% | 47.0% |
% 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
48.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.6%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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 Parkview Elementary School
Parkview Elementary School's state test result (48.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parkview Elementary School this school | 499 | 67.7% | 48.8% |
| Shenandoah Elementary School Baton Rouge | 584 | 64.4% | 51.5% |
| Congetta Trippe Janet Elementary School Marrero | 868 | 68.4% | 32.7% |
| Riverside Elementary School Shreveport | 404 | 68.1% | 27.5% |
| McKinley Elementary Baton Rouge | 628 | 78.2% | 26.8% |
| Coteau Elementary School New Iberia | 353 | 78.8% | 43.8% |
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 Parkview Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In East Baton Rouge Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.8% | #114 of 583 | #9 of 49 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #152 of 582 ▼ 17 | #10 of 49 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #87 of 587 ▲ 65 | #8 of 50 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -4.0pp | #154 of 540 | #12 of 36 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 499 | #260 of 714 | #20 of 67 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #317 of 655 | #35 of 60 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.0% | #96 of 655 | #6 of 60 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.7% | #438 of 705 | #49 of 65 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.0% | #207 of 436 | #20 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
499
-32 (-6%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 519
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 22.1:1
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 | 499 | 37.6 | 13.3:1 | 68% (338) |
| 2023-24 | 507 | 36.5 | 13.9:1 | 54% (274) |
| 2022-23 | 539 | 23.9 | 22.6:1 | 68% (365) |
| 2020-21 | 531 | 24 | 22.1:1 | 45% (237) |
| 2017-18 | 601 | 26 | 23.1:1 | 53% (316) |
| 2015-16 | 619 | 50 | 12.4:1 | 33% (203) |
| 2010-11 | 515 | 41 | 12.6:1 | 57% (292) |
| 2000-01 | 511 | 25 | 20.4:1 | 35% (178) |
| 1990-91 | 519 | 29 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Parkview Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (601 to 499); teachers up 44% (26 to 37.6).
About Parkview Elementary School
Parkview Elementary School is an elementary school located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in East Baton Rouge Parish. It had 499 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 5.
Parkview Elementary School is in East Baton Rouge Parish, a district with 40,083 students across 83 schools.
More than half of enrollment at Parkview Elementary School is Black: 53%. Next come 26% White, 10% Asian, 7% Hispanic, and 3% multiracial. The county population is about 44% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Parkview Elementary School scores 64%.
Its staff includes 37.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 13.3 students per teacher. The ratio is within a point of the 14.0:1 average for elementary schools in Louisiana. Parkview Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 68%. Public schools in East Baton Rouge Parish average a similar 70%.
Among Louisiana public elementary schools, Parkview Elementary School outscored 82%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Parkview Elementary School's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 48.8% is 13.3 points above the 35.6% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
The school's county is East Baton Rouge Parish. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $63,071 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 14%. Public schools in East Baton Rouge Parish number 132, with about 66,892 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Louisiana Key Academy Baton Rouge, is about 0.9 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Parkview Elementary School places 3rd of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
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.
In 2020-21, Parkview Elementary School enrolled 531 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 499. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 22.1:1 to 13.3:1.
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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 Parkview Elementary schools
40 other US public schools in 19 states are named Parkview Elementary. Parkview Elementary School is the 12th largest of the 41.
- Parkview ElementaryEl Monte, CA · 920 students
- PARKVIEW ELEMENTARYROSEMOUNT, MN · 674 students
- Parkview Elementary SchoolFORT WORTH, TX · 618 students
- Parkview Elementary SchoolOklahoma City, OK · 609 students
- Parkview Elementary SchoolFORT WORTH, TX · 588 students
Nearby schools
- Louisiana Key Academy Baton Rouge0.9 mi · 351
- BASIS Baton Rouge Materra Campus1.5 mi · 888
- Woodlawn Middle School1.9 mi · 807
- Jefferson Terrace Academy1.9 mi · 571
- Cedarcrest-Southmoor Elementary School2.2 mi · 644
- Southeast Middle School2.5 mi · 826
Frequently asked questions
About Parkview Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Parkview Elementary School?
Parkview Elementary School enrolls approximately 499 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Parkview Elementary School serve?
Parkview Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Parkview Elementary School?
Approximately 13.3:1 students per teacher at Parkview Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Parkview Elementary School?
At Parkview Elementary School, the student body is approximately 26% White, 7% Hispanic, 53% Black, 10% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Parkview Elementary School public or private?
Parkview Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by East Baton Rouge Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.