Gramercy Elementary School

Gramercy Elementary School is one of the mid-sized middle-grades schools in Gramercy, Louisiana, operated by St. James Parish, with 403 students on its rolls from grades 4 through 6.

Across the 6 schools in St. James Parish (3,194 students total), Gramercy Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Gramercy Elementary School records that 54% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 43% White.

On the resource side, On paper, Gramercy Elementary School has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 41.0:1 average. Around 60% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Gramercy Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.9%, the actual is 31.3%, a residual of -9.6 points.

Around the school, St. James Parish reports that median household earnings sit near $65,531, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across St. James Parish's 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,194 students), Gramercy Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Lutcher High School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Gramercy Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Gramercy Elementary School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 26.7%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 29%: 569 students in 2018 compared to 403 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 59% to 54% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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