Highland Elementary School

Highland Elementary School operates as a tight-knit elementary school in West Monroe, Louisiana, one of the schools within Ouachita Parish. Current enrollment sits at 263 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 42% smaller than the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 453 students.

Within Ouachita Parish, which oversees 36 schools and 17,435 students, Highland Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Highland Elementary School lists that 70% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 20% Black, 6% Hispanic, 2% Asian. By comparison, Ouachita Parish as a whole is about 56% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 62% of students at Highland Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Highland Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.0%, the actual is 38.3%, a residual of -1.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, Ouachita Parish reports that median household income runs about $54,688, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 18% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Ouachita Parish runs 59 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,952 students), of which Highland Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Boley Elementary School, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Highland Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Highland Elementary School comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 50.8%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 9%: 241 students in 2018 compared to 263 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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