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Enrollment
527
High
DISTRICT 930 · STATE 711
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JEFFERSON PARISH·NCES 220084001964
Thomas Jefferson High School for Advanced Studies
910 Gretna Blvd, Gretna, LA 70053 · (504) 363-4300 · Jefferson Parish
GRADES 06–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL527 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 97% of Louisiana public high schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
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 high schools
Student : Teacher
21.1:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.7:1 · STATE 18.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
269 students
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 70%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 26 | 5% |
| Grade 7 | 37 | 7% |
| Grade 8 | 88 | 17% |
| Grade 9 | 93 | 18% |
| Grade 10 | 89 | 17% |
| Grade 11 | 112 | 21% |
| Grade 12 | 82 | 16% |
Student demographics
76%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+Math
86.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +5.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school do math at grade level. The Louisiana average is about 34 of 100. Math scores are up about 5 points since 2022.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | N/A | 86.0% |
| 2024-25 | 95.0% | 86.0% |
| 2023-24 | 93.0% | 83.0% |
| 2022-23 | 95.0% | 81.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of LA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
87.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.6%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+39.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 48% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 40 points, placing it in Louisiana's top 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 Thomas Jefferson High School for Advanced Studies
Thomas Jefferson High School for Advanced Studies's state test result (87.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Jefferson High School for Advanced Studies this school | 527 | 51.0% | 87.2% |
| Patrick F. Taylor Science & Technology Academy Avondale | 871 | 43.6% | 88.2% |
| Haynes Academy School for Advanced Studies Metairie | 872 | 30.4% | 92.7% |
| Benjamin Franklin High School New Orleans | 1,056 | 30.5% | N/A |
| Baton Rouge Magnet High School Baton Rouge | 1,593 | 32.2% | N/A |
| South Plaquemines High School Buras | 355 | 75.2% | 35.3% |
Matched among Louisiana high 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 Thomas Jefferson High School for Advanced Studies ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Jefferson Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 87.2% | #3 of 65 | N/A |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 86.0% | #3 of 69 no change | N/A |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 95.0% | #1 of 70 no change | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 527 | #152 of 267 | #11 of 15 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.1:1 | #226 of 240 | #11 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 76.1% | #2 of 240 | #1 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 51.0% | #209 of 258 | #13 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +30.1% | #14 of 75 | #3 of 8 |
Ranked against other public high 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
527
-76 (-13%) vs 2020
+46% since 2010-11, when it was 361
Student : Teacher
21.1:1
was 27.4:1
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 | 527 | 25 | 21.1:1 | 51% (269) |
| 2023-24 | 541 | 28.2 | 19.2:1 | 34% (183) |
| 2022-23 | 541 | 20.5 | 26.4:1 | 35% (192) |
| 2020-21 | 603 | 22 | 27.4:1 | 74% (447) |
| 2017-18 | 405 | 18 | 22.5:1 | 43% (173) |
| 2015-16 | 389 | 29 | 13.4:1 | 41% (160) |
| 2010-11 | 361 | 21 | 17.2:1 | 37% (135) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Thomas Jefferson High School for Advanced Studies.
Since 2017-18: students up 30% (405 to 527); teachers up 39% (18 to 25).
About Thomas Jefferson High School for Advanced Studies
Among the schools in Gretna, Louisiana, is Thomas Jefferson High School for Advanced Studies, a small high school. Enrollment totals 527 students across grades 6 through 12. Across high schools in Louisiana, the average enrollment is about 711.
Enrollment across the 74 schools in Jefferson Parish totals 46,790 students.
The student body at Thomas Jefferson High School for Advanced Studies has no majority group. Black students lead at 31%. Enrollment also includes 26% White, 19% Asian, 19% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 76%.
For every teacher at Thomas Jefferson High School for Advanced Studies, there are about 21.1 students; the school has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for high schools in Louisiana, 18.0:1, is lower. There are 269 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 51% of enrollment. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Jefferson Parish is 68%.
Among Louisiana public high schools, Thomas Jefferson High School for Advanced Studies outscored 97%, which works out to an A+ on the allk12 Grade.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Thomas Jefferson High School for Advanced Studies would score about 47.6%. It scores 87.2%, a top-10% result among Louisiana schools on BeatsExpectations.
In Jefferson Parish, home to about 430,920 people, median household income comes to about $65,252, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Jefferson Parish's 86 public schools enroll about 47,983 students and include Thomas Jefferson High School for Advanced Studies.
Of the public schools around it, Thomas Jefferson High School for Advanced Studies is closest to Shirley Johnson/Gretna Park Elementary School, about 0.1 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Thomas Jefferson High School for Advanced Studies at 2nd of 6.
NCES assigns Thomas Jefferson High School for Advanced Studies the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment decreased by 13% across 4 years, from 603 in 2020-21 to 527 in 2024-25. The ratio of students to teachers went from 27.4:1 to 21.1:1 over the same years.
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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 Gretna
- Young Audiences Charter SchoolElementary · 1,077 students
- Paul J. Solis Elementary SchoolElementary · 777 students
- Shirley Johnson/Gretna Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 671 students
- Young Audiences Charter High SchoolHigh · 643 students
- George Cox Elementary SchoolElementary · 402 students
- Ruppel Academie FrancaiseElementary · 362 students
Nearby schools
- Shirley Johnson/Gretna Park Elementary School0.1 mi · 671
- Frederick Douglass Community School1.0 mi · 40
- Terrytown Elementary School1.3 mi · 611
- Ruppel Academie Francaise1.4 mi · 362
- Livaudais Middle School1.5 mi · 743
- Gretna No. 2 Academy for Advanced Studies1.5 mi · 355
Frequently asked questions
About Thomas Jefferson High School for Advanced StudiesWhat is the total enrollment at Thomas Jefferson High School for Advanced Studies?
Thomas Jefferson High School for Advanced Studies enrolls approximately 527 students in grades 06-12.
What grades does Thomas Jefferson High School for Advanced Studies serve?
Thomas Jefferson High School for Advanced Studies serves grades 06-12.
How many teachers does Thomas Jefferson High School for Advanced Studies have?
Thomas Jefferson High School for Advanced Studies employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 21.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Thomas Jefferson High School for Advanced Studies?
Student demographics at Thomas Jefferson High School for Advanced Studies are roughly 26% White, 19% Hispanic, 31% Black, 19% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Thomas Jefferson High School for Advanced Studies in?
Thomas Jefferson High School for Advanced Studies is part of Jefferson Parish.
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