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Enrollment
602
Elementary
DISTRICT 539 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JEFFERSON PARISH·NCES 220084000619
Phoebe Hearst School
5208 Wabash Street, Metairie, LA 70001 · (504) 887-8814 · Jefferson Parish
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL602 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 22% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-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
12.2:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
357 students
DISTRICT 68% · 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 | 44 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 92 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 92 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 114 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 107 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 83 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (92) is 31% larger than its 5th grade class (70).
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · 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
31.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +7.0pp since 2022
Math
26.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +5.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 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 7 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 5 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 31.0% | 26.0% |
| 2024-25 | 32.0% | 31.0% |
| 2023-24 | 22.0% | 24.0% |
| 2022-23 | 24.0% | 21.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of LA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
24.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.6%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 42% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Phoebe Hearst School
Phoebe Hearst School's state test result (24.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phoebe Hearst School this school | 602 | 59.3% | 24.2% |
| Tom Benson School Kenner | 631 | 62.9% | 14.5% |
| John Clancy/Joseph Maggiore Elementary School Kenner | 545 | 58.2% | 26.8% |
| Marie B. Riviere Elementary School Metairie | 526 | 62.4% | 31.7% |
| Fairview Elementary School Lake Charles | 518 | 58.7% | 13.2% |
| Harold Keller Elementary School Metairie | 550 | 64.2% | 28.5% |
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 Phoebe Hearst School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Jefferson Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.2% | #386 of 583 | #28 of 50 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.0% | #368 of 582 ▼ 65 | #23 of 48 ▼ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.0% | #411 of 587 ▼ 15 | #29 of 50 ▼ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.0pp | #106 of 540 | #6 of 46 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 602 | #145 of 714 | #18 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #188 of 655 | #15 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.1% | #329 of 655 | #41 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.3% | #545 of 705 | #45 of 51 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.4% | #400 of 436 | #18 of 22 |
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
602
-20 (-3%) vs 2020
-9% since 1990-91, when it was 659
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 18.3:1
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 | 602 | 49.4 | 12.2:1 | 59% (357) |
| 2023-24 | 617 | 49.8 | 12.4:1 | 50% (311) |
| 2022-23 | 692 | 42.7 | 16.2:1 | 53% (368) |
| 2020-21 | 622 | 34 | 18.3:1 | 51% (319) |
| 2017-18 | 617 | 33 | 18.7:1 | 42% (262) |
| 2015-16 | 752 | 46 | 16.4:1 | 84% (632) |
| 2010-11 | 580 | 36 | 16.1:1 | 86% (500) |
| 2000-01 | 550 | 37 | 14.9:1 | 58% (318) |
| 1990-91 | 659 | 34 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Phoebe Hearst School.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (617 to 602); teachers up 50% (33 to 49.4).
About Phoebe Hearst School
Phoebe Hearst School is a medium-sized elementary school in Jefferson Parish, located in Metairie, Louisiana. The latest federal count shows 602 students in pre-K through 5. The average for elementary schools in Louisiana is about 453 students, so this school is 33% larger than average.
The district, Jefferson Parish, has 46,790 students enrolled across 74 schools.
At Phoebe Hearst School, Hispanic students make up 67% of the student body. Next come 19% Black and 12% White. The county population is about 19% Hispanic. Phoebe Hearst School's diversity index is 50%, against a US figure of 70%.
The teaching staff at Phoebe Hearst School is 49.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 12.2:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 14.0:1 average for elementary schools in Louisiana. About 59% of students, or 357, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Jefferson Parish average 68%.
allk12 grades Phoebe Hearst School a C-. The grade compares the school only with Louisiana public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
A school in Louisiana with Phoebe Hearst School's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 41.6%. Phoebe Hearst School scores 24.2%.
Census estimates describe Jefferson Parish this way: the median household income is $65,252, about 31% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 13%. In all, Jefferson Parish has 86 public schools and roughly 47,983 students.
Nearest public school: Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies, about 0.7 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Phoebe Hearst School is 6th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
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.
Over 4 years, Phoebe Hearst School's enrollment declined 3%, to 602. The school's ratio fell from 18.3:1 to 12.2:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
Conversations here can range across enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Jefferson Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
430,920
Census ACS
Median income
$65,252
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
86
47,983 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Jefferson Parish
- Bonnabel Magnet Academy High SchoolHigh · 2,376 students
- Kenner Discovery Health Sciences AcademyCombined · 2,263 students
- John Ehret High SchoolHigh · 1,850 students
- West Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,438 students
- East Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,381 students
- Riverdale High SchoolHigh · 1,259 students
Other schools in Metairie
- East Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,381 students
- Haynes Academy School for Advanced StudiesHigh · 872 students
- J.D. Meisler Middle SchoolMiddle · 679 students
- John Q. Adams Middle SchoolMiddle · 658 students
- Bissonet Plaza SchoolElementary · 624 students
- Rudolph Matas SchoolElementary · 600 students
Nearby schools
- Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies0.7 mi · 434
- Rudolph Matas School0.9 mi · 600
- T.H. Harris Middle School0.9 mi · 563
- Alice Birney Elementary School1.1 mi · 579
- Bridgedale Elementary School1.2 mi · 491
- J.D. Meisler Middle School1.5 mi · 679
Frequently asked questions
About Phoebe Hearst SchoolHow large is Phoebe Hearst School?
Phoebe Hearst School enrolls approximately 602 students in grades PK-05.
Is Phoebe Hearst School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Phoebe Hearst School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Phoebe Hearst School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Phoebe Hearst School is approximately 12.2:1 (49 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Phoebe Hearst School?
At Phoebe Hearst School, the student body is approximately 12% White, 67% Hispanic, 19% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Phoebe Hearst School public or private?
Phoebe Hearst School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Jefferson Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.