Amite Elementary Magnet School

As an average-sized elementary school in Amite, Louisiana, Amite Elementary Magnet School enrolls 431 students from grades pre-K through 4, overseen by Tangipahoa Parish.

Tangipahoa Parish comprises 32 schools with combined enrollment of 19,077 students; Amite Elementary Magnet School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Amite Elementary Magnet School logs that the largest single group is Black, at 79% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 14% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Roughly 95% of students at Amite Elementary Magnet School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Tangipahoa Parish (around 73%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Amite Elementary Magnet School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 16.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 14.3%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Tangipahoa Parish put median household income runs about $56,760, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Tangipahoa Parish runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,077 students), of which Amite Elementary Magnet School is one.

Amite High Magnet is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Amite Elementary Magnet School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 18.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 12%: 490 students in 2018 compared to 431 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Amite Elementary Magnet School community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.