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Enrollment
600
Elementary
DISTRICT 539 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JEFFERSON PARISH·NCES 220084000634
Rudolph Matas School
1201 Elise Street, Metairie, LA 70003 · (504) 733-6200 · Jefferson Parish
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL600 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 54% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-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
12.7:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
64%
382 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 | 18 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 57 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 72 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 81 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 47 | 8% |
| Grade 7 | 61 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 46 | 8% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 24% larger than its 8th grade class (46).
Student demographics
64%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
41.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +3.0pp since 2022
Math
45.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +12.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 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 12 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 41.0% | 45.0% |
| 2024-25 | 42.0% | 37.0% |
| 2023-24 | 40.0% | 37.0% |
| 2022-23 | 38.0% | 33.0% |
% 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
36.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.5%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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 Rudolph Matas School
Rudolph Matas School's state test result (36.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rudolph Matas School this school | 600 | 63.7% | 36.0% |
| J.C. Ellis School Metairie | 587 | 70.7% | 42.5% |
| Joseph C Moscona School Metairie | 521 | 67.2% | 23.5% |
| Bissonet Plaza School Metairie | 624 | 63.0% | 22.7% |
| Chalmette Elementary School Chalmette | 467 | 66.0% | 30.0% |
| Chateau Estates School Kenner | 610 | 63.4% | 27.5% |
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 Rudolph Matas School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Jefferson Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #264 of 583 | #9 of 50 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #173 of 582 ▲ 78 | #5 of 48 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #277 of 587 ▼ 1 | #11 of 50 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.5pp | #85 of 540 | #5 of 46 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 600 | #148 of 714 | #19 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.7:1 | #241 of 655 | #20 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.2% | #93 of 655 | #18 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.7% | #490 of 705 | #38 of 51 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.0% | #133 of 197 | #22 of 26 |
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
600
+16 (+3%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 671
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
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 | 600 | 47.4 | 12.7:1 | 64% (382) |
| 2023-24 | 622 | 48.5 | 12.8:1 | 50% (311) |
| 2022-23 | 609 | 30.1 | 20.2:1 | 56% (340) |
| 2020-21 | 584 | 28 | 20.9:1 | 63% (368) |
| 2017-18 | 561 | 32 | 17.5:1 | 35% (197) |
| 2015-16 | 599 | 53 | 11.3:1 | 69% (416) |
| 2010-11 | 462 | 36 | 12.8:1 | 71% (330) |
| 2000-01 | 509 | 44 | 11.6:1 | 40% (202) |
| 1990-91 | 671 | 45 | 14.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Rudolph Matas School.
Since 2017-18: students up 7% (561 to 600); teachers up 48% (32 to 47.4).
About Rudolph Matas School
Rudolph Matas School runs as a mid-sized elementary school in Metairie, Louisiana. The school teaches pre-K through 8 and enrolls 600 students. That puts enrollment 32% larger than the 453-student average for elementary schools in Louisiana.
Jefferson Parish oversees Rudolph Matas School and 73 other schools, with 46,790 students in total.
At Rudolph Matas School, Hispanic students make up the biggest share, 43%. Other students are 40% White, 10% Black, 4% Asian, and 3% multiracial. By comparison, Jefferson Parish residents are about 19% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 64, compared with 70 nationally.
With 47.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 12.7:1. Elementary schools in Louisiana average 14.0:1, 1.3 more students per teacher than here. Roughly 64% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among Louisiana public elementary schools, Rudolph Matas School outscored 54%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
In Louisiana, Rudolph Matas School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 36.0% actual against a predicted 38.5%.
Looking at the county, Jefferson Parish, median household income comes to about $65,252, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 31% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 13%. The county has 86 public schools and about 47,983 students.
T.H. Harris Middle School is less than a tenth of a mile from Rudolph Matas School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, Rudolph Matas School ranks 2nd on proficiency.
The school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, according to its NCES locale (City: Mid-size).
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 600, compared with 584 in 2020-21. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 20.9:1; by 2024-25 it was 12.7:1.
People can post here about special education services, counseling, and support programs and other school topics. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
- Phoebe Hearst SchoolElementary · 602 students
Nearby schools
- T.H. Harris Middle School0.1 mi · 563
- Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies0.5 mi · 434
- Bridgedale Elementary School0.8 mi · 491
- Phoebe Hearst School0.9 mi · 602
- East Jefferson High School1.2 mi · 1,381
- Green Park Elementary School1.4 mi · 433
Frequently asked questions
About Rudolph Matas SchoolHow large is Rudolph Matas School?
Rudolph Matas School enrolls approximately 600 students in grades PK-08.
Is Rudolph Matas School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Rudolph Matas School is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Rudolph Matas School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Rudolph Matas School is approximately 12.7:1 (47 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Rudolph Matas School?
Student demographics at Rudolph Matas School are roughly 40% White, 43% Hispanic, 10% Black, 4% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Rudolph Matas School in?
Rudolph Matas School is part of Jefferson Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.