Marthaville Elementary & Junior High School

Set in Marthaville, Louisiana, Marthaville Elementary & Junior High School is a tight-knit elementary school, run under Natchitoches Parish. It works with 196 students across grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Marthaville Elementary & Junior High School sits 57% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Natchitoches Parish, which oversees 13 schools and 4,792 students, Marthaville Elementary & Junior High School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Marthaville Elementary & Junior High School reports that 79% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 8% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 4% Native American. By comparison, Natchitoches Parish as a whole is about 51% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Marthaville Elementary & Junior High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Marthaville Elementary & Junior High School ranks in the top 10% of Louisiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 19.5%; Marthaville Elementary & Junior High School posts 45.7%, +26.1 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, Natchitoches Parish reports that median household income runs about $46,292, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 18%. In all, Natchitoches Parish runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,064 students), of which Marthaville Elementary & Junior High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Pleasant Hill High School, around 8.5 miles off. On composite proficiency, Marthaville Elementary & Junior High School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 32.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 32%: 290 students in 2018 compared to 196 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 14% to 8%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

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