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What's the biggest difference between Prairieville Primary School and what you expected?
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Enrollment
865
Elementary
DISTRICT 603 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ASCENSION PARISH·NCES 220009002076
Prairieville Primary School
40228 Parker Road, Prairieville, LA 70769 · (225) 391-7400 · Ascension Parish
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL865 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 91% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-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
13.1:1
66 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
37%
324 students
DISTRICT 56% · 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 | 24 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 133 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 155 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 119 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 150 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 146 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 138 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (133) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (138).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
74.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +3.0pp since 2022
Math
70.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +1.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 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 up about 1 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 74.0% | 70.0% |
| 2024-25 | 72.0% | 72.0% |
| 2023-24 | 70.0% | 64.0% |
| 2022-23 | 71.0% | 69.0% |
% 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
64.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.4%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 Prairieville Primary School
Prairieville Primary School's state test result (64.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prairieville Primary School this school | 865 | 37.5% | 64.7% |
| North DeSoto Upper Elementary School Stonewall | 807 | 41.4% | 47.8% |
| Bluff Ridge Primary Prairieville | 677 | 39.1% | 66.2% |
| Herndon Magnet School Belcher | 701 | 34.1% | 64.5% |
| Oak Grove Primary School Prairieville | 725 | 40.7% | 69.7% |
| Audubon Charter School New Orleans | 937 | 32.6% | N/A |
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 Prairieville Primary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Ascension Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.7% | #35 of 583 | #6 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #31 of 582 ▼ 7 | #3 of 18 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.0% | #26 of 587 ▲ 9 | #2 of 18 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.0pp | #202 of 540 | #4 of 18 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 865 | #30 of 714 | #2 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #292 of 655 | #9 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.7% | #290 of 655 | #15 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 37.5% | #677 of 705 | #19 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.6% | #342 of 436 | #10 of 12 |
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
865
+48 (+6%) vs 2020
+4% since 2010-11, when it was 835
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 20.9:1
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 | 865 | 66 | 13.1:1 | 37% (324) |
| 2023-24 | 870 | 64.1 | 13.6:1 | 37% (325) |
| 2022-23 | 845 | 45.4 | 18.6:1 | 38% (321) |
| 2020-21 | 817 | 39 | 20.9:1 | 31% (253) |
| 2017-18 | 926 | 51 | 18.1:1 | 30% (278) |
| 2015-16 | 879 | 55 | 16.0:1 | 32% (278) |
| 2010-11 | 835 | 47 | 17.8:1 | 33% (276) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Prairieville Primary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (926 to 865); teachers up 29% (51 to 66).
About Prairieville Primary School
The public elementary school Prairieville Primary School is located in Prairieville, Louisiana. It reported 865 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. Elementary schools in Louisiana have about 453 students on average; enrollment here is 91% higher.
The district, Ascension Parish, has 23,743 students enrolled across 32 schools.
The student body at Prairieville Primary School is 65% White. The rest of enrollment is 19% Black, 9% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. Among Ascension Parish residents, the White share is about 64%. A diversity index of 53% means there is a 53% chance two randomly chosen students at Prairieville Primary School are from different groups.
Classroom staffing at Prairieville Primary School totals 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 13.1:1. The average for elementary schools in Louisiana, 14.0:1, is higher. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Prairieville Primary School is about 37%. Among public schools in Ascension Parish, the average eligibility rate is 52%.
Among Louisiana public elementary schools, Prairieville Primary School outscored 91%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
Test results at Prairieville Primary School are 7.3 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (64.7% actual, 57.4% predicted).
Ascension Parish is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $91,549 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 29% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Public schools in Ascension Parish number 32, with about 23,743 students.
Prairieville High School, about 0.3 miles away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. By average proficiency, Prairieville Primary School is 4th among 8 schools close by.
Prairieville Primary School falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 6% rise, from 817 to 865. The ratio of students to teachers went from 20.9:1 to 13.1:1 over the same years.
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Ascension Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
130,314
Census ACS
Median income
$91,549
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
32
23,743 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Ascension Parish
- Dutchtown High SchoolHigh · 2,029 students
- East Ascension High SchoolHigh · 1,894 students
- St. Amant High SchoolHigh · 1,847 students
- Prairieville High SchoolHigh · 1,377 students
- Lake Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,096 students
- Prairieville Middle SchoolMiddle · 835 students
Other schools in Prairieville
- Prairieville High SchoolHigh · 1,377 students
- Prairieville Middle SchoolMiddle · 835 students
- Galvez Primary SchoolElementary · 783 students
- Oak Grove Primary SchoolElementary · 725 students
- Bluff Ridge PrimaryElementary · 677 students
- Bluff Middle SchoolMiddle · 662 students
Nearby schools
- Prairieville High School0.3 mi · 1,377
- Prairieville Middle School1.5 mi · 835
- Galvez Middle School1.7 mi · 655
- Sugar Mill Primary2.4 mi · 644
- Oak Grove Primary School2.7 mi · 725
- Galvez Primary School2.8 mi · 783
Frequently asked questions
About Prairieville Primary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Prairieville Primary School?
Prairieville Primary School enrolls approximately 865 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Prairieville Primary School serve?
Prairieville Primary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Prairieville Primary School?
Approximately 13.1:1 students per teacher at Prairieville Primary School.
How diverse is Prairieville Primary School?
Prairieville Primary School reports a student body of 65% White, 9% Hispanic, 19% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Prairieville Primary School?
Prairieville Primary School is overseen by Ascension Parish in Ascension Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.