Freshwater Elementary School

Freshwater Elementary School is an elementary school of small scale in Denham Springs, Louisiana, one of the schools within Livingston Parish, serveing 370 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Livingston Parish, which oversees 43 schools and 27,209 students, Freshwater Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Freshwater Elementary School lists that 54% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 19% Black, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 81% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Livingston Parish's rate of about 73%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Freshwater Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 25.1%; this one delivers 49.7%, a residual of +24.5 points.

In the area at large, Livingston Parish reports that median household income runs about $80,122, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Livingston Parish runs 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,209 students), of which Freshwater Elementary School is one.

Northside Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Freshwater Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Freshwater Elementary School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 44.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 11%: 333 students in 2018 compared to 370 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 77% to 54% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.