Frost School

Located at 19672 LA Highway 42, in Livingston, Louisiana, Frost School is a cozy elementary campus that caters to 314 students (grades pre-K through 8), part of Livingston Parish. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Frost School sits 31% smaller than that benchmark.

Livingston Parish runs 43 schools in total, collectively educating 27,209 students. Frost School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Frost School shows that nearly all students (84%) are White. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Frost School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 75% of students at Frost School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Frost School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.6%; this one delivers 42.7%.

In the broader community, Livingston Parish reports that median household income runs about $80,122, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Livingston Parish's 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,209 students), Frost School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is South Fork Elementary School, roughly 5.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Frost School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 42.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Frost School's enrollment has ticked down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 349 (now 314). White enrollment moved from 96% to 84% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

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