J. L. Jones Elementary School

Set in Minden, Louisiana, J. L. Jones Elementary School is a compact elementary campus, one of the schools within Webster Parish. It enrolls 318 students across grades 2 through 3. Compared to the state average of about 453 students per school, that is 30% smaller than typical.

Across the 14 schools in Webster Parish (4,967 students total), J. L. Jones Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, J. L. Jones Elementary School records that the largest single group is Black, at 62% of enrollment; the rest looks like 28% White, 7% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 34% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, J. L. Jones Elementary School shows 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Webster Parish (around 73%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, J. L. Jones Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.5%, the actual is 20.3%, a residual of -4.2 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Webster Parish put the typical household earns roughly $41,182 per year, roughly 13% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 18%. J. L. Jones Elementary School is one of 14 public schools in Webster Parish (combined enrollment of about 4,967 students).

The closest other public school is J. A. Phillips Elementary School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, J. L. Jones Elementary School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 28.4%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 23%: 414 students in 2018 compared to 318 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 43% to 28%.

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