LaPlace Elementary School

As a substantial elementary campus in LaPlace, Louisiana, LaPlace Elementary School hosts 710 students from grades pre-K through 8, run under St. John the Baptist Parish. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so LaPlace Elementary School sits 57% larger than that benchmark.

St. John the Baptist Parish runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 5,039 students. LaPlace Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LaPlace Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Black, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 7% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 57% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. The state averages about 14.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, LaPlace Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.3%, the actual is 16.7%, a residual of -5.6 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for St. John the Baptist Parish put the typical household earns roughly $66,630 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. LaPlace Elementary School is one of 10 public schools in St. John the Baptist Parish (combined enrollment of about 5,039 students).

The closest other public school is John L. Ory Communications Magnet Elementary, roughly 1.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around LaPlace Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LaPlace Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 19.8%.

LaPlace Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 32%: 1,044 students in 2018 compared to 710 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 7% to 18% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

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