Melrose Elementary School

Melrose Elementary School is one of the small primary schools in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, operated by East Baton Rouge Parish, with 227 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 50% smaller than the state mean of about 453.

East Baton Rouge Parish comprises 83 schools with combined enrollment of 40,083 students; Melrose Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Melrose Elementary School shows that nearly all students (97%) are Black. Beyond that, the school reports 3% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the resource side, Melrose Elementary School records 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Melrose Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against East Baton Rouge Parish (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Melrose Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 15.1%, the actual is 14.0%, a residual of -1.1 points.

In the broader community, East Baton Rouge Parish reports that median household income runs about $63,071, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Melrose Elementary School is one of 132 public schools in East Baton Rouge Parish (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students).

Nearest neighbor: Capitol Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Melrose Elementary School comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 30.8%.

Melrose Elementary School operates from an inner-city location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 50%: 450 students in 2018 compared to 227 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

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