A. E. Phillips Laboratory School

A. E. Phillips Laboratory School operates as a reasonably sized elementary-level community in Ruston, Louisiana, overseen by Lincoln Parish. Current enrollment sits at 412 students spanning grades K through 8.

A. E. Phillips Laboratory School is one of 12 schools operated by Lincoln Parish, a district that hosts 5,601 students overall.

On the student-mix side, A. E. Phillips Laboratory School records that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 19% Black, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 53%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, A. E. Phillips Laboratory School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. About 11% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Lincoln Parish runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, A. E. Phillips Laboratory School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 76.3%; this one delivers 86.7%.

In the area at large, census data for Lincoln Parish shows the typical household earns roughly $39,172 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 21% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lincoln Parish's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,360 students), A. E. Phillips Laboratory School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Ruston High School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around A. E. Phillips Laboratory School. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), A. E. Phillips Laboratory School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 30.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

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