Highland Elementary School

Highland Elementary School is a primary school of cozy scale in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, overseen by East Baton Rouge Parish, instructing 288 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 36% smaller than the state mean of about 453.

Across the 83 schools in East Baton Rouge Parish (40,083 students total), Highland Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Highland Elementary School lists that 60% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest consists of 34% Black, 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 7% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.8:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against East Baton Rouge Parish (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Highland Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Louisiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 42.3%; Highland Elementary School posts 17.3%, -25.0 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, East Baton Rouge Parish reports that median household income runs about $63,071, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, East Baton Rouge Parish runs 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students), of which Highland Elementary School is one.

Liberty High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Highland Elementary School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Highland Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 45.4%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Highland Elementary School's enrollment has declined 22% since 2018, when it stood at 369 (now 288). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 30% to 60%. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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