Lowery Elementary School

Lowery Elementary School is one of the intimate K-5 schools in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, run under Ascension Parish, with 307 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 32% below the state mean of about 453.

Ascension Parish runs 32 schools in total, collectively educating 23,743 students. Lowery Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Lowery Elementary School logs that 90% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder comes out to 5% Hispanic, 2% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Ascension Parish as a whole is about 23% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Lowery Elementary School lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Roughly 92% of students at Lowery Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Ascension Parish (around 52%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lowery Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 18.4%, the actual is 23.7%, a residual of +5.2 points.

Around the school, census data for Ascension Parish shows the typical household earns roughly $91,549 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Lowery Elementary School is one of 32 public schools in Ascension Parish (combined enrollment of about 23,743 students).

Lowery Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lowery Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 22.1%.

Lowery Elementary School operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 9%: 338 students in 2018 compared to 307 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 95% to 90% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.