19 public K-12 schools in Metairie from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Metairie has more public-school enrollment than 85% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Metairie's average Resource Investment Index ranks above most listed cities even though its student-teacher ratio is on the more crowded side of the national city distribution. That is a useful mismatch, not a contradiction: counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance can lift the composite while classroom staffing remains comparatively tight. Families should inspect the component scores on each school profile instead of reading the city index as a shorthand for small classes.
14 of Metairie's 19 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.
Metairie's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 91st percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 43-point gap between J.C. Ellis School and T.H. Harris Middle School measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.
Metairie school enrollment ranges from 356 students (lowest) to 1,463 students (highest), a spread of 1,107 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Metairie's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | J.C. Ellis School | 70 |
| 2. | Marie B. Riviere Elementary School | 68 |
| 3. | Bridgedale Elementary School | 64 |
| 4. | Green Park Elementary School | 64 |
| 5. | Metairie Academy for Advanced Studies | 63 |
| 6. | Bissonet Plaza School | 61 |
| 7. | Alice Birney Elementary School | 61 |
| 8. | Joseph C Moscona School | 59 |
| 9. | Phoebe Hearst School | 57 |
| 10. | Rudolph Matas School | 57 |
| 11. | J.D. Meisler Middle School | 51 |
| 12. | Ralph J Bunche Elementary | 49 |
| 13. | Haynes Academy School for Advanced Studies | 46 |
| 14. | John Q. Adams Middle School | 42 |
| 15. | Harold Keller Elementary School | 42 |
| 16. | Airline Park Academy for Advanced Studies | 39 |
| 17. | Grace King High School | 35 |
| 18. | East Jefferson High School | 32 |
| 19. | T.H. Harris Middle School | 27 |
Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.
J.C. Ellis School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Metairie schools in this federal-data comparison at 70/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Metairie has 19 public schools with a total enrollment of 12,389 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 20:1.
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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.
