Mansfield Elementary School

Mansfield Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Mansfield, Louisiana, one of the schools within DeSoto Parish. The school works with 542 students in grades pre-K through 4.

DeSoto Parish comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 4,923 students; Mansfield Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Mansfield Elementary School lists that 87% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder is composed of 4% Hispanic, 4% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 35% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Mansfield Elementary School has 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.8:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above De Soto Parish's rate of about 55%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mansfield Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 21.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.0%.

In the surrounding community, De Soto Parish reports that median household earnings sit near $48,578, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across De Soto Parish's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,923 students), Mansfield Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Mansfield Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mansfield Elementary School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.6%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mansfield Elementary School has shrank 15%, going from 638 students in 2018 to 542 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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