The top reported proficiency rate is 35% in Math. The lowest is 20% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Green Park Elementary School
Green Park Elementary School serves students from prekindergarten through fifth grade in Metairie, a suburban community within Jefferson Parish. The school is a regular public, non-charter elementary school, and it is part of the Jefferson Parish Public School System. For any family looking at this school, the first thing to understand is that the district itself is in a period of significant change: a school consolidation plan approved in 2023 has led to closures, mergers, and redrawn attendance zones across the parish, a process that has drawn concern from parents about longer commutes and disruption. The district has also made budget cuts for the 2024-2025 school year, citing declining enrollment and state funding shortfalls, and simultaneously adopted a new evidence-based reading curriculum and received a federal grant to expand STEM programming. These district-level shifts create a dynamic environment that directly affects Green Park and every other school in the system.
The student body at Green Park is diverse. The largest racial or ethnic group is Hispanic, constituting a substantial majority of the enrollment, with White students as the next largest group, followed by smaller shares of Black and Asian students. About half of the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The school is mid-sized for an elementary school, with enrollment spread fairly evenly across grades kindergarten through five, and a notable prekindergarten program.
On the Louisiana state assessments, the LEAP 2025, the school’s proficiency rates for the 2024-2025 school year were below state averages across all tested subjects. In math, roughly a third of students scored at the proficient or above level. In English language arts, the rate was lower, around a quarter of students. Science and social studies proficiency rates were lower still, each around a fifth of students. Because only a single year of test data is available in this report, there is no trend to examine; this is the school’s baseline for the current testing era. A parent may want to ask the school about its academic improvement plans and how it is working to raise these numbers, and also about whether data for student subgroups, such as students with disabilities or English learners, is available, as that information was not present in this profile.
Metairie itself is a mix of residential and commercial areas. Veterans Memorial Boulevard is the primary commercial corridor, and the business district is centered on Causeway Boulevard near Lake Pontchartrain. There is no traditional downtown; instead, the community has older residential sections like “Old Metairie” with upscale housing tracts and denser commercial zones like “Fat City.” The built environment is mostly car-oriented, though Old Metairie offers older, more walkable pockets. Major employers include the training facilities and corporate headquarters of the New Orleans Saints and New Orleans Pelicans, and several television stations have studios and offices in Metairie. Civic anchors include the East Bank Regional Library and the Bucktown Marsh Boardwalk. The housing market in the area around the school shows home values that are above the national and state medians, reflecting a relatively expensive market for the region. Rents are modestly below what a mortgage would cost with a standard down payment, suggesting that renting may be the more financially accessible option for many families.
Because Green Park is an elementary school only, there is no graduation rate to report, and the school does not serve grades that would have data on course access, discipline, or chronic absenteeism in this profile. The comparison data that would position the school relative to other districts in Jefferson Parish was not available because too few entities in the county had comparable data for the measures used. That means families should rely on direct conversations with the school and the district to understand how Green Park’s academic trajectory and student experience compare with other nearby options, especially as the district continues to navigate consolidation and budget changes. The school’s underlying strengths, such as its prekindergarten program and its position within a district that is investing in new reading curricula and STEM grants, are worth exploring further.
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