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Middle · Alternative · Grades 3 to 8

Frederick Douglass Community School, Gretna, LA

CEP schoolFrederick Douglass Community School is a public middle school in Gretna, part of Jefferson Parish. It enrolled 40 students in 2024-25, with 3.1 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
40
Teachers (FTE)
13.0
Students per teacher
3.1
Grades
3 to 8

This school's ratio is 11.4 lower than the district figure of 14.5. The Louisiana average across schools is 13.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school3.1
District14.5
Louisiana13.9
United States15.3

School details

Address
1400 Huey P Long Ave, Gretna, LA 70053
Phone
(504)371-4651
District
Jefferson Parish
County
Jefferson Parish
Level
Middle
Type
Alternative
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Large
NCES school ID
220084001518
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
34
Reduced-price lunch
1
Free or reduced-price lunch
3587.5% of enrollment.
Direct certification
30Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other middle schools in Jefferson Parish

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.