Henry Mayfield Elementary School

Henry Mayfield Elementary School is one of the expansive elementary schools in Slidell, Louisiana, operated by St. Tammany Parish, with 749 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Henry Mayfield Elementary School sits 65% above that benchmark.

St. Tammany Parish comprises 55 schools with combined enrollment of 35,956 students; Henry Mayfield Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Henry Mayfield Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 40% Black, 8% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.0:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, St. Tammany Parish runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Henry Mayfield Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.7%, the actual is 39.0%, a residual of -1.7 points.

In the area at large, census data for St. Tammany Parish shows the typical household earns roughly $81,202 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across St. Tammany Parish's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,212 students), Henry Mayfield Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Bayou Lacombe Middle, roughly 4.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Henry Mayfield Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Henry Mayfield Elementary School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 30.2%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Henry Mayfield Elementary School's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 766 (now 749). The White share of enrollment fell from 55% to 46% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

On allk12, the feed for Henry Mayfield Elementary School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.