Enrollment
335
Elementary
DISTRICT 313 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. MARY PARISH·NCES 220162001947
M.E. Norman Elementary School
900 Spruce St, Morgan City, LA 70380 · (985) 384-0877 · St. Mary Parish
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL335 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 32% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
15.6:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
258 students
DISTRICT 77% · 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 | 33 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 55 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 48 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 48 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 56 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 17% larger than its 5th grade class (47).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
35.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +1.0pp since 2022
Math
34.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +6.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 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 1 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 6 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 35.0% | 34.0% |
| 2024-25 | 26.0% | 16.0% |
| 2023-24 | 34.0% | 31.0% |
| 2022-23 | 34.0% | 28.0% |
% 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
23.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.9%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% 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 M.E. Norman Elementary School
M.E. Norman Elementary School's state test result (23.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| M.E. Norman Elementary School this school | 335 | 77.0% | 23.7% |
| Wyandotte Elementary School Morgan City | 300 | 69.0% | 44.5% |
| Northside Elementary School Denham Springs | 466 | 78.5% | 37.0% |
| Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff School River Ridge | 384 | 70.1% | 25.7% |
| Galliano Elementary School Galliano | 383 | 74.2% | 39.5% |
| Riser Elementary School West Monroe | 313 | 82.4% | 17.5% |
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 M.E. Norman Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In St. Mary Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.7% | #398 of 583 | #8 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #300 of 582 ▲ 185 | #8 of 10 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #349 of 587 ▲ 115 | #8 of 10 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.5pp | #179 of 540 | #6 of 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 335 | #490 of 714 | #4 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.6:1 | #537 of 655 | #8 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.6% | #9 of 655 | #1 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.0% | #315 of 705 | #7 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +18.4% | #70 of 197 | N/A |
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
335
+49 (+17%) vs 2020
-15% since 1990-91, when it was 394
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
was 16.8:1
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 | 335 | 21.5 | 15.6:1 | 77% (258) |
| 2023-24 | 370 | 25.5 | 14.5:1 | 72% (266) |
| 2022-23 | 372 | 16.8 | 22.2:1 | 67% (250) |
| 2020-21 | 286 | 17 | 16.8:1 | 45% (129) |
| 2017-18 | 283 | 17 | 16.6:1 | 46% (131) |
| 2015-16 | 252 | 18 | 14.0:1 | 76% (192) |
| 2010-11 | 243 | 17 | 14.3:1 | 61% (148) |
| 2000-01 | 277 | 17 | 16.3:1 | 80% (221) |
| 1990-91 | 394 | 21 | 18.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for M.E. Norman Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 18% (283 to 335); teachers up 26% (17 to 21.5).
About M.E. Norman Elementary School
M.E. Norman Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school in Morgan City, Louisiana, (ZIP code 70380). It offers pre-K through 5 and has 335 students enrolled. That is 26% below the average of about 453 students for elementary schools in Louisiana.
District-wide, St. Mary Parish has 21 schools and 7,153 students.
White students make up 35% of enrollment at M.E. Norman Elementary School, the largest share of any group. The remaining shares are 32% Hispanic, 23% Black, and 9% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of St. Mary Parish's population at about 57%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 72%.
M.E. Norman Elementary School reported 21.5 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 15.6:1. Elementary schools in Louisiana have an average ratio of 14.0:1. Roughly 77% of students at M.E. Norman Elementary School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in St. Mary Parish average a similar 75%.
M.E. Norman Elementary School holds a C allk12 Grade, placing it above 32% of Louisiana public elementary schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for M.E. Norman Elementary School is -5.2 points: 23.7% actual, 28.9% predicted.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for St. Mary Parish show that the median household earns about $52,576 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 14%, and roughly 18% of residents are in poverty. Across St. Mary Parish, 23 public schools serve about 7,765 students.
Morgan City Junior High School is about 0.2 miles from M.E. Norman Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, M.E. Norman Elementary School is 6th among 7 schools close by.
The school's locale code, Town: Distant, means it is in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 335, up from 286 in 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 16.8:1 to 15.6:1.
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St. Mary Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
47,828
Census ACS
Median income
$52,576
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
14%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
18%
Below federal line
Schools in county
23
7,765 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in St. Mary Parish
- Morgan City High SchoolHigh · 650 students
- Hattie A. Watts Elementary SchoolElementary · 601 students
- Berwick High SchoolHigh · 469 students
- Patterson High SchoolHigh · 439 students
- Centerville High SchoolCombined · 429 students
- Berwick Elementary SchoolElementary · 420 students
Other schools in Morgan City
- Morgan City High SchoolHigh · 650 students
- Morgan City Junior High SchoolMiddle · 412 students
- Bayou Vista Elementary SchoolElementary · 340 students
- Wyandotte Elementary SchoolElementary · 300 students
- Julia B. Maitland SchoolElementary · 199 students
- Bayou L'Ourse Primary SchoolElementary · 150 students
Nearby schools
- Morgan City Junior High School0.2 mi · 412
- Morgan City High School0.6 mi · 650
- Julia B. Maitland School0.7 mi · 199
- Berwick Elementary School1.2 mi · 420
- Wyandotte Elementary School2.1 mi · 300
- Berwick Junior High School2.1 mi · 325
Frequently asked questions
About M.E. Norman Elementary SchoolHow many students attend M.E. Norman Elementary School?
M.E. Norman Elementary School enrolls approximately 335 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does M.E. Norman Elementary School serve?
M.E. Norman Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does M.E. Norman Elementary School have?
M.E. Norman Elementary School employs 21 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.6:1.
What is the student diversity at M.E. Norman Elementary School?
Student demographics at M.E. Norman Elementary School are roughly 35% White, 32% Hispanic, 23% Black, 1% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is M.E. Norman Elementary School in?
M.E. Norman Elementary School is part of St. Mary Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.