Jonesville Elementary School

Jonesville Elementary School is a K-5 school of cozy scale in Jonesville, Louisiana, one of the schools within Catahoula Parish, teacheing 211 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Jonesville Elementary School sits 53% below that benchmark.

Jonesville Elementary School is one of 5 schools operated by Catahoula Parish, a district that teaches 898 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Jonesville Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is Black (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 46% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Catahoula Parish as a whole is about 34% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Jonesville Elementary School has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Jonesville Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 96% of students at Jonesville Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Catahoula Parish runs at roughly 84%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Jonesville Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 15.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.7%.

Across the wider county, Catahoula Parish reports that the typical household earns roughly $50,275 per year, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 20%. Across Catahoula Parish's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 898 students), Jonesville Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Block High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Jonesville Elementary School at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 24.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 23%: 275 students in 2018 compared to 211 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 54% to 46% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

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