Rudolph Matas School

Set in Metairie, Louisiana, Rudolph Matas School is a medium-sized primary school, overseen by Jefferson Parish. It serves 600 students across grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Rudolph Matas School sits 32% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 74 schools in Jefferson Parish (46,790 students total), Rudolph Matas School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Rudolph Matas School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 43%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 40% White, 10% Black, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Jefferson Parish as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 64% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Rudolph Matas School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.5%; this one delivers 35.7%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Jefferson Parish) records that median household income runs about $65,252, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Jefferson Parish's 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 47,983 students), Rudolph Matas School is one campus in the mix.

T.H. Harris Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rudolph Matas School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rudolph Matas School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 33.7%.

Rudolph Matas School operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Rudolph Matas School's enrollment has expanded 7% since 2018, when it stood at 561 (now 600). Hispanic enrollment moved from 22% to 43% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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