French Settlement Elementary School

French Settlement Elementary School is a K-5 school of medium-sized scale in French Settlement, Louisiana, one of the schools within Livingston Parish, educateing 530 students in grades pre-K through 6.

French Settlement Elementary School is one of 43 schools operated by Livingston Parish, a district that educates 27,209 students overall.

On demographics, French Settlement Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%); the rest looks like 4% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, French Settlement Elementary School has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting French Settlement Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 65% of students at French Settlement Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, French Settlement Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.8%, the actual is 45.3%, a residual of +7.6 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Livingston Parish) shows that median household income runs about $80,122, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Livingston Parish's 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,209 students), French Settlement Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is French Settlement High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around French Settlement Elementary School. On composite proficiency, French Settlement Elementary School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 52.4%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at French Settlement Elementary School has ticked up 10%, going from 483 students in 2018 to 530 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

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