Ferriday Upper Elementary School

As a small elementary-level community in Ferriday, Louisiana, Ferriday Upper Elementary School serves 242 students from grades 3 through 5, one of the schools within Concordia Parish. That puts it 47% below the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 453 students.

Ferriday Upper Elementary School is one of 10 schools operated by Concordia Parish, a district that works with 2,911 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Ferriday Upper Elementary School reports that 83% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest comes out to 12% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 39%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Ferriday Upper Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 93% of students at Ferriday Upper Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Concordia Parish (around 80%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Ferriday Upper Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.3%, the actual is 15.3%, a residual of -2.0 points.

Around the school, census data for Concordia Parish shows median household income runs about $39,943, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 25% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Concordia Parish runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,396 students), of which Ferriday Upper Elementary School is one.

Ferriday Junior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Ferriday Upper Elementary School.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 20%: 302 students in 2018 compared to 242 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 89% to 83%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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