Jennings Elementary School

Jennings Elementary School operates as a big primary school in Jennings, Louisiana, part of Jefferson Davis Parish. Current enrollment sits at 976 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Jennings Elementary School sits 115% above that benchmark.

Across the 12 schools in Jefferson Davis Parish (5,210 students total), Jennings Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Jennings Elementary School logs that 49% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 35% Black, 9% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Jennings Elementary School has 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.5:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 73% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Jefferson Davis Parish runs at roughly 58%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Jennings Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.0%; this one delivers 33.7%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Jefferson Davis Parish indicate the typical household earns roughly $57,341 per year, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Jefferson Davis Parish's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,210 students), Jennings Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Jennings High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.8 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Jennings Elementary School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 42.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jennings Elementary School has ticked up 73%, going from 565 students in 2018 to 976 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 54% to 49% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 22.2:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.

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