Jack Hayes Elementary School

Jack Hayes Elementary School operates as an average-sized elementary school in Monroe, Louisiana, one of the schools within Ouachita Parish. Current enrollment sits at 501 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Ouachita Parish comprises 36 schools with combined enrollment of 17,435 students; Jack Hayes Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Jack Hayes Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (88%). The remainder is composed of 4% White, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 37%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Jack Hayes Elementary School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Ouachita Parish runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Jack Hayes Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.9%, the actual is 19.3%, a residual of -6.5 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Ouachita Parish shows median household income runs about $54,688, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 18% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Ouachita Parish's 59 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,952 students), Jack Hayes Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Sallie Humble Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jack Hayes Elementary School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jack Hayes Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 22.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Jack Hayes Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 20% since 2018, when it stood at 629 (now 501). Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Jack Hayes Elementary School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.