Mary Goff Elementary School

Mary Goff Elementary School is one of the cozy elementary campuss in Pineville, Louisiana, operated by Rapides Parish, with 365 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6.

Rapides Parish runs 43 schools in total, collectively educating 21,340 students. Mary Goff Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Mary Goff Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). Other groups include 9% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 61%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Mary Goff Elementary School has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Roughly 74% of students at Mary Goff Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mary Goff Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.2%, the actual is 44.0%, a residual of +12.8 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Rapides Parish) logs that median household income runs about $54,967, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Rapides Parish's 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,481 students), Mary Goff Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Tioga Junior High School, around 2.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mary Goff Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 45.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Mary Goff Elementary School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 362 (now 365). Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 14% to 9%. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 in 2025.

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