Ray St. Pierre Academy for Advanced Studies

Set in Westwego, Louisiana, Ray St. Pierre Academy for Advanced Studies is a close-knit elementary campus, one of the schools within Jefferson Parish. It works with 354 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 22% below the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 453 students.

Jefferson Parish runs 74 schools in total, collectively educating 46,790 students. Ray St. Pierre Academy for Advanced Studies is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Ray St. Pierre Academy for Advanced Studies logs that the largest single group is Black at 33%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 31% White, 24% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Ray St. Pierre Academy for Advanced Studies has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Ray St. Pierre Academy for Advanced Studies higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 46% of students at Ray St. Pierre Academy for Advanced Studies qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Jefferson Parish (around 68%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Ray St. Pierre Academy for Advanced Studies ranks in the top 10% of Louisiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 51.3%; Ray St. Pierre Academy for Advanced Studies posts 78.0%, +26.7 points above that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Jefferson Parish) reports that median household income runs about $65,252, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Jefferson Parish runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 47,983 students), of which Ray St. Pierre Academy for Advanced Studies is one.

Nearest neighbor: Stella Worley Middle School, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Ray St. Pierre Academy for Advanced Studies comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 30.4%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ray St. Pierre Academy for Advanced Studies has edged down 4%, going from 367 students in 2018 to 354 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share edged up from 16% to 24%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.6:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

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