Glen View Elementary School

Glen View Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary campus in Ruston, Louisiana, operated by Lincoln Parish. The school educates 438 students in grades K through 2.

Lincoln Parish runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 5,601 students. Glen View Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Glen View Elementary School reports that the largest single group is Black, at 66% of enrollment. Other groups include 22% White, 8% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Lincoln Parish as a whole is about 37% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Glen View Elementary School has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Glen View Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 71% of students at Glen View Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Lincoln Parish runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Lincoln Parish put median household income runs about $39,172, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 21%. Glen View Elementary School is one of 14 public schools in Lincoln Parish (combined enrollment of about 6,360 students).

Nearest neighbor: Ruston Junior High School, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Glen View Elementary School.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 13%: 501 students in 2018 compared to 438 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 29% to 22% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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