Claiborne School

Set in West Monroe, Louisiana, Claiborne School is a mid-tier elementary school, part of Ouachita Parish. It educates 643 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Claiborne School sits 42% above that benchmark.

Within Ouachita Parish, which oversees 36 schools and 17,435 students, Claiborne School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Claiborne School logs that 73% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 11% Black, 7% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 56%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Roughly 51% of students at Claiborne School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Ouachita Parish's rate of about 67%.

After controlling for student poverty, Claiborne School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.9%, the actual is 57.7%, a residual of +9.8 points.

Around the school, census data for Ouachita Parish shows median household earnings sit near $54,688, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 18%. In all, Ouachita Parish runs 59 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,952 students), of which Claiborne School is one.

George Welch Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Claiborne School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Claiborne School at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 47.4%.

Claiborne School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Claiborne School has fell 22%, going from 829 students in 2018 to 643 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 83% to 73% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.8:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 today.

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