Brusly Elementary School, Brusly LA

Original Research by School Decision on Brusly Elementary School

Brusly Elementary School serves only the earliest grades, pre-kindergarten through first grade, so it is where children begin their public school journey in this small West Baton Rouge Parish community. Because state standardized testing in Louisiana starts in third grade, no test results from the LEAP assessments apply to this school’s own students. The performance data shown elsewhere on this page for grades three through eight come from a different population and are not tied to the pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, and first graders who attend Brusly Elementary.

The school enrolls a modest number of children for a primary school, and its student body is roughly balanced between Black and white students, with smaller shares of Hispanic and multiracial children. A large majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which qualifies the school for federal meal assistance and signals that many families face economic pressures. The school is a regular public school, not a charter or magnet, and sits within the West Baton Rouge Parish district.

Brusly itself is a primarily residential town on Louisiana Highway 1, part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan area. It has a suburban-rural texture — low density, car-dependent, with limited commercial activity. Town hall and the schools are spread along Vaughan Drive rather than clustered in a downtown core. The Cinclare Sugar Mill Historic District just north of town recalls the area’s agricultural past. Brusly has grown slowly and steadily; homes are moderately priced relative to national benchmarks, and the town functions largely as a bedroom community for Baton Rouge commuters. A Planning and Zoning Commission points to managed infill rather than rapid expansion.

The West Baton Rouge Parish district is in a period of facility changes. Voters approved a bond issue in 2022 to fund a new pre-kindergarten through fifth-grade elementary school in Port Allen, set to open in the near future. Separately, the district has considered moving fifth-graders from the Brusly Elementary campus to the high school to relieve overcrowding. Brusly Elementary itself currently serves only pre-kindergarten through first grade, so these reconfigurations would affect the broader school campus and the district’s grade structure, not this building’s current students.

For a family with a very young child, Brusly Elementary offers a small-town, community-rooted start. The peer environment is diverse and predominantly low-income on the meal aid measure, though the town’s median household income is relatively high for the region, suggesting a mix of economic backgrounds. Because the school does not serve tested grades, there is no state performance data to evaluate, which is typical for early-primary schools. A parent may want to ask the school or district about early literacy benchmarks or kindergarten readiness assessments, as those are not captured in the state accountability system.

The school’s physical address on South LaBauve Avenue places it near the Vaughan Drive corridor where other district schools and town hall are located, so families with multiple children at different grade levels will find a compact geography. The district’s upcoming construction and grade reconfiguration mean that attendance zones and building assignments could shift in the next few years, something any family moving into the area should confirm with the district office. For now, Brusly Elementary is what the name says: a straight-ahead neighborhood primary school where children begin their education in a stable, slow-growing town.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 338%

School 38% · district not reported

▲ 13 pts above state median

Grade 432%

School 32% · district not reported

▲ 4 pts above state median

Grade 527%

School 27% · district not reported

▲ 8 pts above state median

Grade 645%

School 45% · district not reported

▲ 25 pts above state median

Grade 725%

School 25% · district not reported

even with state median

Grade 827%

School 27% · district not reported

▲ 12 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 342%

School 42% · district not reported

▲ 12 pts above state median

Grade 439%

School 39% · district not reported

▲ 8 pts above state median

Grade 549%

School 49% · district not reported

▲ 20 pts above state median

Grade 653%

School 53% · district not reported

▲ 27 pts above state median

Grade 745%

School 45% · district not reported

▲ 13 pts above state median

Grade 845%

School 45% · district not reported

▲ 18 pts above state median

Science

Grade 315%

School 15% · district not reported

even with state median

Grade 436%

School 36% · district not reported

▲ 16 pts above state median

Grade 545%

School 45% · district not reported

▲ 22 pts above state median

Grade 635%

School 35% · district not reported

▲ 14 pts above state median

Grade 739%

School 39% · district not reported

▲ 17 pts above state median

Grade 836%

School 36% · district not reported

▲ 21 pts above state median

Social studies

Grade 343%

School 43% · district not reported

▲ 29 pts above state median

Grade 449%

School 49% · district not reported

▲ 29 pts above state median

Grade 549%

School 49% · district not reported

▲ 26 pts above state median

Grade 640%

School 40% · district not reported

▲ 24 pts above state median

Grade 748%

School 48% · district not reported

▲ 24 pts above state median

Grade 851%

School 51% · district not reported

▲ 36 pts above state median

This schoolWest Baton Rouge Parish, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.