Delta Elementary School

Delta Elementary School operates as a medium-sized primary school in Mer Rouge, Louisiana, one of the schools within Morehouse Parish. Current enrollment sits at 442 students spanning grades pre-K through 6.

Across the 5 schools in Morehouse Parish (3,082 students total), Delta Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Delta Elementary School logs that 80% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest comes out to 17% White. The wider county runs roughly 48% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Roughly 82% of students at Delta Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Delta Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Louisiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 25.2%; Delta Elementary School posts 7.5%, -17.7 points below that line.

Around the school, Morehouse Parish reports that median household earnings sit near $39,454, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 22%. In all, Morehouse Parish runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,082 students), of which Delta Elementary School is one.

Morehouse Magnet School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 6.5 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Delta Elementary School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 42.5%.

Delta Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 21%: 365 students in 2018 compared to 442 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 in 2025.

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