DeRidder Elementary School

Located at 909 High School Drive, in DeRidder, Louisiana, DeRidder Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary school that instructs 490 students (grades 2 through 4), operated by Beauregard Parish.

Within Beauregard Parish, which oversees 13 schools and 5,915 students, DeRidder Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DeRidder Elementary School shows that 56% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school reports 23% Black, 10% multiracial, 10% Hispanic. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Beauregard Parish's rate of about 53%.

In the area at large, census data for Beauregard Parish shows median household earnings sit near $65,944, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Beauregard Parish runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,915 students), of which DeRidder Elementary School is one.

Pine Wood Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

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