Benton Elementary School

Benton Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Benton, Louisiana, one of the schools within Bossier Parish. The school instructs 595 students in grades K through 4. That puts it 31% above the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 453 students.

Within Bossier Parish, which oversees 34 schools and 22,233 students, Benton Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Benton Elementary School records that 72% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 15% Black, 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Bossier Parish as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. The state averages about 14.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 46% of students at Benton Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Benton Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.4%, the actual is 50.7%, a residual of -0.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Bossier Parish indicate median household income runs about $69,617, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bossier Parish runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,233 students), of which Benton Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Benton Intermediate School, around 2.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Benton Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Benton Elementary School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 50.0%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 606 students in 2018 compared to 595 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 77% to 72%. Class-load math has fell: from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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