Bernard Terrace Elementary School

Bernard Terrace Elementary School, a small elementary-level community in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, operated by East Baton Rouge Parish, teaches 240 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 47% smaller than the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 453 students.

Bernard Terrace Elementary School is one of 83 schools operated by East Baton Rouge Parish, a district that works with 40,083 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Bernard Terrace Elementary School lists that 95% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 44% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Bernard Terrace Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above East Baton Rouge Parish's rate of about 70%.

With demographic context factored in, Bernard Terrace Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.8%, the actual is 18.3%, a residual of -3.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for East Baton Rouge Parish shows median household income runs about $63,071, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across East Baton Rouge Parish's 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students), Bernard Terrace Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Louisiana Rebirth Blended Learning Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bernard Terrace Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bernard Terrace Elementary School at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 18.6%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 40%: 399 students in 2018 compared to 240 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

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