Original Research by School Decision on Pelican Educational Foundation- Kenilworth Science
Pelican Educational Foundation–Kenilworth Science is a single-school independent charter district in Baton Rouge, within East Baton Rouge Parish. It operates Kenilworth Science and Technology Academy, a kindergarten through eighth grade school. Because it serves only early and middle grades, there is no high school graduation rate, and state assessment data is absent from the available records. That absence does not indicate failure; it simply means the kind of comparative academic scores a parent might expect for a K–8 campus were not reported in the sources used here.
The school enrolls a moderate number of students for its grade band. Demographically, the student body is predominantly Black, with a much smaller share of Hispanic students and very small numbers of white, Asian, American Indian or Alaska Native, and two-or-more-races students. The share of students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch was not reported in the data, nor were counts of students with disabilities or English learners. A parent considering this school may want to ask the administration directly about those support services and the economic composition of the student population.
No information was available on the school's programs, course access, staffing ratios, discipline rates, or attendance patterns. The district brief, based on a search of public records, found no evidence of recent property-tax measures, referendums, curriculum overhauls, or other changes that would have a lasting impact on families. The absence of such findings is itself a datum: it suggests a period of stability, though a parent may wish to confirm the school's current priorities directly.
The comparison set for this district places it among East Baton Rouge Parish's 26 districts. However, every metric—overall proficiency, graduation rate, chronic absenteeism, per-pupil spending—was marked as not applicable because the entity value was missing. This means no ranking or positioning relative to neighboring districts can be drawn from the data on hand. The school stands alone in the record as a distinct charter organization, not as part of a larger district with comparable figures.
For a family, this is a school whose academic track record is not documented in the available state testing results, and whose student support profile is mostly unstated. The single-school charter structure means decisions about curriculum, budget, and staffing sit with the school's own board, not a broader district office. A parent who values a self-contained K–8 environment with a specific science-and-technology focus may want to visit, request classroom observation, and ask for the most recent internal assessments and parent surveys. The lack of external benchmarks does not mean the school lacks structure or success; it means a family will need to gather that information firsthand.
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