K.R. Hanchey Elementary School

K.R. Hanchey Elementary School is one of the small primary schools in DeRidder, Louisiana, operated by Beauregard Parish, with 353 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 1. Enrollment runs roughly 22% below the state mean of about 453.

Beauregard Parish comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 5,915 students; K.R. Hanchey Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, K.R. Hanchey Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 22% Black, 14% Hispanic, 12% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

On the income-and-resources front, K.R. Hanchey Elementary School records 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Roughly 67% of students at K.R. Hanchey Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Beauregard Parish's rate of about 53%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Beauregard Parish) logs that median household earnings sit near $65,944, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Beauregard Parish runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,915 students), of which K.R. Hanchey Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: DeRidder Junior High School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools.

K.R. Hanchey Elementary School operates from a town-center location.

Trend over the last 7 years. K.R. Hanchey Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 27% since 2018, when it stood at 484 (now 353). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 59% to 52%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the K.R. Hanchey Elementary School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.