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What's one thing Woodland West School gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
631
Elementary
DISTRICT 539 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JEFFERSON PARISH·NCES 220084000656
Woodland West School
2143 Mars Street, Harvey, LA 70058 · (504) 366-5308 · Jefferson Parish
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL631 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 19% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-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
16.5:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
510 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 | 38 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 83 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 68 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 7% |
| Grade 5 | 75 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 61 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 58 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 68 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (83) is 22% larger than its 8th grade class (68).
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
30.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +0.0pp since 2022
Math
16.0%
LA avg 34.2% . -4.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2022, while math scores are down about 4 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 30.0% | 16.0% |
| 2024-25 | 28.0% | 21.0% |
| 2023-24 | 28.0% | 17.0% |
| 2022-23 | 30.0% | 20.0% |
% 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
21.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.1%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% 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 Woodland West School
Woodland West School's state test result (21.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodland West School this school | 631 | 80.8% | 21.3% |
| Broadmoor Elementary School Baton Rouge | 579 | 82.2% | 19.7% |
| Cherokee Elementary School Alexandria | 576 | 84.5% | 33.8% |
| Paul J. Solis Elementary School Gretna | 777 | 79.2% | 31.2% |
| McKinley Elementary Baton Rouge | 628 | 78.2% | 26.8% |
| Isaac G Joseph Elementary School Westwego | 439 | 83.4% | 21.2% |
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 Woodland West School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Jefferson Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.3% | #429 of 583 | #34 of 50 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.0% | #494 of 582 ▼ 76 | #37 of 48 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.0% | #419 of 587 ▲ 18 | #32 of 50 ▲ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.0pp | #196 of 540 | #14 of 46 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 631 | #120 of 714 | #11 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.5:1 | #587 of 655 | #46 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.1% | #94 of 655 | #19 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.8% | #268 of 705 | #9 of 51 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.8% | #249 of 436 | #9 of 22 |
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
631
-172 (-21%) vs 2020
-27% since 1990-91, when it was 863
Student : Teacher
16.5:1
was 22.3:1
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 | 631 | 38.3 | 16.5:1 | 81% (510) |
| 2023-24 | 737 | 40.1 | 18.4:1 | 71% (522) |
| 2022-23 | 782 | 33.4 | 23.4:1 | 75% (583) |
| 2020-21 | 803 | 36 | 22.3:1 | 80% (640) |
| 2017-18 | 732 | 33.8 | 21.7:1 | 57% (418) |
| 2015-16 | 764 | 53 | 14.4:1 | 88% (670) |
| 2010-11 | 760 | 50 | 15.2:1 | 90% (686) |
| 2000-01 | 817 | 50 | 16.3:1 | 80% (655) |
| 1990-91 | 863 | 43 | 20.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Woodland West School.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (732 to 631); teachers up 13% (33.8 to 38.3).
About Woodland West School
Woodland West School is a medium-sized elementary school in Harvey, Louisiana, one of the schools in Jefferson Parish. The school had 631 students in pre-K through 8 in 2024-25. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Louisiana) has about 453 students.
District-wide, Jefferson Parish has 74 schools and 46,790 students.
By race and ethnicity, Woodland West School is 53% Black. It is also 20% White, 19% Hispanic, and 7% Asian. For comparison, the population of Jefferson Parish is roughly 26% Black. Woodland West School has a diversity index of 64%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Federal data list 38.3 full-time-equivalent teachers at Woodland West School in 2024-25, for a ratio of 16.5:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Louisiana is 14.0:1, lower than at this school. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 81%. On average, public schools in Jefferson Parish report 68%.
allk12 grades Woodland West School a C-. The grade compares the school only with Louisiana public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
After adjusting for student poverty, Woodland West School lands between the top and bottom 10% of Louisiana schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 21.3%; the prediction is 26.1%.
County data help place the school in context: in Jefferson Parish, median household income is about $65,252, about 31% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 13%. Woodland West School is among the 86 public schools in Jefferson Parish.
Nearest public school: Woodmere School, about 1.4 miles away. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Woodland West School is 6th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
In the federal locale system, Woodland West School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal counts put enrollment at 803 in 2020-21 and 631 in 2024-25, a 21% decrease. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (16.5:1) than in 2020-21 (22.3:1).
Parents and students can post about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs at Woodland West School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Harvey
- West Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,438 students
- Jefferson RISE Charter SchoolHigh · 764 students
- Woodmere SchoolElementary · 629 students
- Laureate Academy Charter SchoolElementary · 532 students
- Ella C. Pittman Elementary SchoolElementary · 471 students
- JCFAHigh · 127 students
Nearby schools
- Woodmere School1.4 mi · 629
- Paul J. Solis Elementary School1.6 mi · 777
- Jefferson RISE Charter School1.7 mi · 764
- Shirley Johnson/Gretna Park Elementary School2.0 mi · 671
- Laureate Academy Charter School2.0 mi · 532
- Thomas Jefferson High School for Advanced Studies2.1 mi · 527
Frequently asked questions
About Woodland West SchoolHow many students attend Woodland West School?
Woodland West School enrolls approximately 631 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does Woodland West School serve?
Woodland West School serves grades PK-08.
How many students per teacher at Woodland West School?
Approximately 16.5:1 students per teacher at Woodland West School.
How diverse is Woodland West School?
Woodland West School reports a student body of 20% White, 19% Hispanic, 53% Black, 7% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Woodland West School public or private?
Woodland West School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Jefferson Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.