LaSalle Elementary School

LaSalle Elementary School, a low-enrollment elementary school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, one of the schools within East Baton Rouge Parish, instructs 338 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 25% leaner than the state mean of about 453.

East Baton Rouge Parish comprises 83 schools with combined enrollment of 40,083 students; LaSalle Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, LaSalle Elementary School records that Black students make up the majority at 57%. The remainder comes out to 31% Hispanic, 8% White, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, East Baton Rouge Parish as a whole is about 44% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, LaSalle Elementary School has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. About 64% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LaSalle Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.0%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for East Baton Rouge Parish put median household earnings sit near $63,071, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across East Baton Rouge Parish's 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students), LaSalle Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Tara High School, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LaSalle Elementary School. On composite proficiency, LaSalle Elementary School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.2%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. LaSalle Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 34% since 2018, when it stood at 514 (now 338). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 15% to 31%. Class-load math has fell: from 21.4:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 in 2025.

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