Martha Vinyard Elementary School

Located at 40105 Dunson Road, in Ponchatoula, Louisiana, Martha Vinyard Elementary School is a reasonably sized 6-8 campus that works with 589 students (grades 5 through 6), run under Tangipahoa Parish. That puts it 34% larger than the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 440 students.

Within Tangipahoa Parish, which oversees 32 schools and 19,077 students, Martha Vinyard Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Martha Vinyard Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 39% Black, 13% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 61%.

On the resource side, Martha Vinyard Elementary School shows 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 41.0:1 average. An estimated 71% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Martha Vinyard Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Louisiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 33.1%; Martha Vinyard Elementary School posts 16.7%, -16.4 points below that line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Tangipahoa Parish put median household earnings sit near $56,760, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Martha Vinyard Elementary School is one of 33 public schools in Tangipahoa Parish (combined enrollment of about 19,077 students).

Nearest neighbor: Ponchatoula High School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Martha Vinyard Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Martha Vinyard Elementary School at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 21.5%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Martha Vinyard Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 24% since 2018, when it stood at 771 (now 589). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 53% to 41% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 26.6:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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