Barkdull Faulk Elementary School

Barkdull Faulk Elementary School is a tight-knit elementary-level community in Monroe, Louisiana, overseen by City of Monroe School District. The school instructs 212 students in grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Barkdull Faulk Elementary School sits 53% below that benchmark.

Barkdull Faulk Elementary School is one of 19 schools operated by City of Monroe School District, a district that hosts 8,033 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Barkdull Faulk Elementary School reports that 95% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. By comparison, Ouachita Parish as a whole is about 37% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Barkdull Faulk Elementary School shows 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.2:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 96% of students at Barkdull Faulk Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Ouachita Parish runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Barkdull Faulk Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 15.3%; this one delivers 12.0%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Ouachita Parish indicate median household earnings sit near $54,688, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 18%. Barkdull Faulk Elementary School is one of 59 public schools in Ouachita Parish (combined enrollment of about 25,952 students).

Clara Hall Accelerated School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Barkdull Faulk Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 13.2%.

Barkdull Faulk Elementary School operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Barkdull Faulk Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 20% since 2018, when it stood at 265 (now 212). Class-load math has fell: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 in 2025.

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