Lafargue Elementary School

Set in Effie, Louisiana, Lafargue Elementary School is a moderately sized K-5 school, operated by Avoyelles Parish. It works with 581 students across grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Lafargue Elementary School sits 28% above that benchmark.

Avoyelles Parish runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 4,794 students. Lafargue Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Lafargue Elementary School lists that White students make up the majority at 78%. The remainder reads as 14% Black, 7% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Lafargue Elementary School has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.3:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 67% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Lafargue Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.8%, the actual is 40.0%, a residual of +4.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Avoyelles Parish shows the typical household earns roughly $39,325 per year, 12% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. In all, Avoyelles Parish runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,726 students), of which Lafargue Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Marksville Elementary School, roughly 7.8 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Lafargue Elementary School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.6%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lafargue Elementary School has contracted 20%, going from 726 students in 2018 to 581 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 21% to 14%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 22.7:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 in 2025.

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