Lessie Moore Elementary School

Lessie Moore Elementary School is an elementary school of mid-tier scale in Pineville, Louisiana, run under Rapides Parish, educateing 392 students in grades pre-K through 3.

Within Rapides Parish, which oversees 43 schools and 21,340 students, Lessie Moore Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Lessie Moore Elementary School shows that Black students make up the majority at 72%; the rest looks like 22% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 31% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Rapides Parish (around 77%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lessie Moore Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 15.9%, the actual is 30.3%, a residual of +14.4 points.

Around the school, census data for Rapides Parish shows median household income runs about $54,967, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Lessie Moore Elementary School is one of 51 public schools in Rapides Parish (combined enrollment of about 21,481 students).

The closest other public school is Pineville High School, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lessie Moore Elementary School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Lessie Moore Elementary School's enrollment has climbed 6% since 2018, when it stood at 370 (now 392). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 34% to 22%. Class-load math has fell: from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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