The top reported proficiency rate is 61% in English language arts. The lowest is 30% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Mandeville Elementary School
Mandeville Elementary School serves children from prekindergarten through third grade and sits within the St. Tammany Parish Public School system, the public school district for a largely suburban area on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. The school serves a primarily residential community that functions in many ways as a commuter base for the New Orleans metro area, connected by the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway. Locally described as family-friendly, the city of Mandeville has a historic lakefront core with cultural venues such as the Dew Drop Jazz and Social Hall and a Trailhead that anchors the Tammany Trace rail-trail, a popular corridor for biking and walking.
Because Mandeville Elementary serves only the early elementary grades, the academic results that are available come from state assessments given in third grade, the first tested year in Louisiana. The school had full participation, and the data show a mixed picture that a parent may want to explore further. In English language arts, a strong majority of students met the state’s bar for proficiency. In mathematics, about half of students reached that level. In social studies, fewer than half did. The lowest result was in science, where a smaller share of students met the proficiency standard. In this school, the third-grade testing cohort is a single year group, so these numbers reflect the performance of one class, not a schoolwide trend. Because this is the only year of testing data available, there is no multi-year trend to examine.
The student body is predominantly white, with a substantial Hispanic enrollment and smaller shares of Black, Asian, and multiracial students. More than a quarter of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a moderate level of economic need across the school. Data on students with disabilities and English learners were not available in the source materials used for this profile; those are categories a parent with relevant concerns may wish to ask the school about directly.
The school is a regular public school and not a charter. It is not recorded as a magnet school, and its Title I status, which identifies schools with high concentrations of poverty that receive additional federal funding, was not present in the data. The school’s governance is through the St. Tammany Parish district, and the district brief turned up no publicly reported recent changes to curriculum, boundaries, or programming that were found within the research conducted.
Mandeville Elementary serves a compact set of grades and sends its students onward to a local intermediate or elementary school that covers the upper elementary years. For families weighing this school, the central academic takeaway is a strong result in third-grade reading and a noticeably weaker result in science, with math and social studies in a middle range. The school’s small testing cohort means a single class can drive the numbers, and parents may want to ask how those results compare with the school’s own internal assessments and how instruction in science is structured in the early grades.
The housing market in the zip code around Mandeville Elementary reflects home values above the Louisiana state average and modestly below the national average, with a slight year-over-year decline. Rental costs are moderate relative to household incomes. For families moving to the area, Mandeville offers a mix of historic lakefront character and suburban residential streets, with the Tammany Trace trail and lakefront parks as notable amenities. The daily commute to New Orleans is feasible but requires crossing the Causeway.
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