Folsom Elementary School

Set in Folsom, Louisiana, Folsom Elementary School is a mid-sized primary school, operated by St. Tammany Parish. It instructs 453 students across grades pre-K through 5.

St. Tammany Parish comprises 55 schools with combined enrollment of 35,956 students; Folsom Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Folsom Elementary School records that 75% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 14% Black, 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Folsom Elementary School records 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Roughly 51% of students at Folsom Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Folsom Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.5%, the actual is 54.7%, a residual of +7.1 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for St. Tammany Parish indicate median household income runs about $81,202, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, St. Tammany Parish runs 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,212 students), of which Folsom Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Folsom Junior High School, around 1.6 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Folsom Elementary School at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 41.3%.

Folsom Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 446 students in 2018 compared to 453 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the Folsom Elementary School community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.