The top reported proficiency rate is 53% in English language arts. The lowest is 36% in Social studies.
Original Research by School Decision on Woodlawn Elementary
Woodlawn Elementary serves students from prekindergarten through fifth grade in Baton Rouge, as part of the East Baton Rouge Parish school system. It is a regular public school, not a charter or magnet. The student body is diverse, with the largest groups being Black and White, followed by Hispanic students, and smaller shares of Asian and multiracial students. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, placing the school in a middle ground economically rather than at either extreme. The overall enrollment is moderate for an elementary school, with roughly balanced class sizes across the grades.
On Louisiana’s LEAP 2025 assessments, Woodlawn’s students performed above the midpoint when compared with other schools across the districts of East Baton Rouge Parish. Proficiency in English language arts is solid, with a majority of students meeting the state’s proficient or advanced benchmark. In mathematics, the share of students reaching that level is lower, and in science and social studies it is lower still. A parent looking at these results will see reading as a relative strength and math and the content areas as places where the school may have more ground to cover. Only one year of assessment data was available, so no trend can be described yet. Participation in testing was complete, meaning nearly every enrolled student took the exams.
The school does not report counts of students with individualized education programs or those classified as English learners in the data we reviewed. For families whose children receive special education services or are learning English, this is a gap worth following up on directly with the school. Discipline data, course access information, and staffing ratios are also absent from the available records, so a detailed picture of the school environment and support structures is not possible from this source alone.
The building is located on Antioch Road in the southeastern part of Baton Rouge, in a section of the city that is largely suburban in character. Baton Rouge itself is a large state capital with a mixed economy built around government, Louisiana State University, and petrochemical and industrial operations along the Mississippi River. The city is car-dependent outside of a few walkable pockets near downtown and the university. Housing values in the zip code are moderately above the statewide average and close to the national figure; rents follow a similar pattern. The area has seen suburban growth in the southern and eastern parts of the parish, which is where Woodlawn Elementary sits.
Because this is a PK–5 school, there is no graduation rate to report, and measures like chronic absenteeism were not available in this dataset. The district brief for East Baton Rouge Parish did not surface any recent policy changes or referendums that would directly affect families this year, though a large district can always have shifts in boundaries or programming that a parent may want to check locally.
Woodlawn Elementary fits a family looking for a moderately sized, diverse elementary school in a suburban pocket of Baton Rouge, with reading proficiency that stands somewhat above the typical school in the parish and with room for improvement in math and the sciences. The missing details on special populations and school environment mean that a visit and a conversation with the principal would be worthwhile for any parent who wants a fuller sense of the day-to-day experience.
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