Enrollment
278
Elementary
DISTRICT 375 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CITY OF MONROE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 220108000996
Madison James Foster Elementary School
1310 Richwood Road #1, Monroe, LA 71202 · (318) 325-7979 · Ouachita Parish
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL278 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 23% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Louisiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
271 students
DISTRICT 86% · STATE 70%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 25 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 48 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 35 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 40 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 39 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 35 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 30 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 26 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (48) is 85% larger than its 6th grade class (26).
Student demographics
1%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 31% · STATE 65% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
19.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +6.0pp since 2022
Math
8.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +1.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 8 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 1 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 19.0% | 8.0% |
| 2024-25 | 16.0% | 6.0% |
| 2023-24 | 26.0% | 8.0% |
| 2022-23 | 13.0% | 7.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
14.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
14.1%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 14% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Louisiana's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Madison James Foster Elementary School
Madison James Foster Elementary School's state test result (14.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madison James Foster Elementary School this school | 278 | 97.5% | 14.0% |
| Thomas Jefferson Elementary Monroe | 268 | 97.0% | 14.7% |
| Clara Hall Accelerated School Monroe | 260 | 96.5% | N/A |
| Winbourne Elementary School Baton Rouge | 274 | 96.0% | 10.2% |
| Progress Elementary School Baton Rouge | 300 | 96.3% | 18.5% |
| Cherokee Park Elementary School Shreveport | 282 | 95.0% | 13.0% |
Matched among Louisiana elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Madison James Foster Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Ouachita Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.0% | #529 of 583 | #24 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 8.0% | #567 of 582 ▲ 7 | #26 of 30 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 19.0% | #545 of 587 ▲ 17 | #26 of 30 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.5pp | #175 of 540 | #7 of 29 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 278 | #565 of 714 | #25 of 36 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #77 of 655 | #2 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 1.4% | #652 of 655 | #30 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.5% | #16 of 705 | #3 of 35 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.5% | #86 of 436 | #2 of 26 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
278
-49 (-15%) vs 2020
-44% since 2000-01, when it was 493
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 14.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 278 | 25.7 | 10.8:1 | 97% (271) |
| 2023-24 | 312 | 27.5 | 11.3:1 | 88% (275) |
| 2022-23 | 320 | 21.8 | 14.7:1 | 96% (307) |
| 2020-21 | 327 | 22 | 14.9:1 | 87% (285) |
| 2017-18 | 389 | 21.9 | 17.8:1 | 95% (368) |
| 2015-16 | 417 | N/A | N/A | 94% (394) |
| 2010-11 | 429 | 28 | 15.3:1 | 97% (416) |
| 2000-01 | 493 | 29 | 17.0:1 | 94% (463) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Madison James Foster Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 29% (389 to 278); teachers up 18% (21.9 to 25.7).
About Madison James Foster Elementary School
Madison James Foster Elementary School is a small elementary school serving families in Monroe, Louisiana. The school offers pre-K through 6 and enrolls 278 students. Across elementary schools in Louisiana, the average enrollment is about 453.
Madison James Foster Elementary School is among 19 schools run by City of Monroe School District, which serves 8,033 students.
Black students are 99% of those enrolled at Madison James Foster Elementary School. That compares with about 37% Black among all Ouachita Parish residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 1%.
Teacher count: 25.7 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 10.8:1. Compared with the 14.0:1 average for elementary schools in Louisiana, this school's ratio is lower. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 97%. The average for public schools in Ouachita Parish is 67%.
Among Louisiana public elementary schools, Madison James Foster Elementary School outscored 23%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
In Louisiana, Madison James Foster Elementary School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 14.0% actual against a predicted 14.1%.
For the population of Ouachita Parish, median household income comes to about $54,688, roughly 29% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 18%. Ouachita Parish counts 59 public schools with about 25,952 students.
Of the public schools around it, Madison James Foster Elementary School is closest to Robinson Elementary School, about 0.6 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 13.5% on proficiency, and Madison James Foster Elementary School is above that at 14.0%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Small: inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment decreased 15% over 4 years, reaching 278 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 14.9:1 to 10.8:1.
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Ouachita Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
158,480
Census ACS
Median income
$54,688
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
18%
Below federal line
Schools in county
59
25,952 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in City of Monroe School District
- Neville High SchoolHigh · 1,042 students
- Wossman High SchoolHigh · 635 students
- Sallie Humble Elementary SchoolElementary · 579 students
- Carroll High SchoolHigh · 577 students
- Lexington Elementary SchoolElementary · 547 students
- Neville Junior High SchoolMiddle · 474 students
Other schools in Monroe
- Ouachita Parish High SchoolHigh · 1,112 students
- Neville High SchoolHigh · 1,042 students
- Wossman High SchoolHigh · 635 students
- Sallie Humble Elementary SchoolElementary · 579 students
- Carroll High SchoolHigh · 577 students
- Lexington Elementary SchoolElementary · 547 students
Nearby schools
- Robinson Elementary School0.6 mi · 374
- Richwood Junior High School0.9 mi · 347
- Richwood High School1.0 mi · 400
- Southside Alternative High School1.2 mi · 165
- Shady Grove Elementary School1.7 mi · 195
- Berg Jones Elementary School1.9 mi · 328
Frequently asked questions
About Madison James Foster Elementary SchoolHow large is Madison James Foster Elementary School?
Madison James Foster Elementary School enrolls approximately 278 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does Madison James Foster Elementary School serve?
Madison James Foster Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Madison James Foster Elementary School?
Approximately 10.8:1 students per teacher at Madison James Foster Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Madison James Foster Elementary School?
Student demographics at Madison James Foster Elementary School are roughly 0% White, 99% Black.
What district is Madison James Foster Elementary School in?
Madison James Foster Elementary School is part of City of Monroe School District.
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