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Enrollment
1,261
Elementary
DISTRICT 584 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAFAYETTE PARISH·NCES 220087000682
Milton Elementary School
222 W. Milton Avenue, Lafayette, LA 70508 · (337) 521-7740 · Lafayette Parish
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,261 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 83% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-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
20.0:1
63 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.7:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
33%
411 students
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 70%
Community
5
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 | 38 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 131 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 125 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 124 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 146 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 141 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 154 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 156 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 108 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 138 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (131) is 5% smaller than its 8th grade class (138).
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · 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
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
72.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +6.0pp since 2022
Math
70.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +10.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 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 6 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 10 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 72.0% | 70.0% |
| 2024-25 | 70.0% | 65.0% |
| 2023-24 | 66.0% | 60.0% |
| 2022-23 | 66.0% | 60.0% |
% 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
60.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.9%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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 Milton Elementary School
Milton Elementary School's state test result (60.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milton Elementary School this school | 1,261 | 32.6% | 60.3% |
| Prairieville Primary School Prairieville | 865 | 37.5% | 64.7% |
| Madisonville Elementary School Madisonville | 1,010 | 25.0% | N/A |
| Kingston Elementary School Benton | 768 | 24.7% | 69.0% |
| Herndon Magnet School Belcher | 701 | 34.1% | 64.5% |
| Joseph B. Lancaster Elementary School Madisonville | 1,480 | 21.6% | 58.3% |
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 Milton Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Lafayette Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.3% | #51 of 583 | #7 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #32 of 582 ▲ 7 | #3 of 24 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #32 of 587 ▲ 14 | #3 of 24 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +8.0pp | #77 of 540 | #3 of 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,261 | #5 of 714 | #1 of 26 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.0:1 | #641 of 655 | #22 of 26 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.2% | #455 of 655 | #21 of 26 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 32.6% | #683 of 705 | #25 of 26 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +25.3% | #52 of 197 | #2 of 10 |
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
1,261
+43 (+4%) vs 2020
+81% since 1990-91, when it was 696
Student : Teacher
20.0:1
was 20.3:1
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 | 1,261 | 63.1 | 20.0:1 | 33% (411) |
| 2023-24 | 1,300 | 69.7 | 18.6:1 | 34% (438) |
| 2022-23 | 1,332 | 63.2 | 21.1:1 | 39% (522) |
| 2020-21 | 1,218 | 60 | 20.3:1 | 39% (475) |
| 2017-18 | 1,006 | 51 | 19.7:1 | 28% (279) |
| 2015-16 | 1,005 | 59 | 17.0:1 | 32% (317) |
| 2010-11 | 826 | 47 | 17.6:1 | 28% (229) |
| 2000-01 | 789 | 45 | 17.5:1 | 20% (156) |
| 1990-91 | 696 | 39 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Milton Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 25% (1,006 to 1,261); teachers up 24% (51 to 63.1).
About Milton Elementary School
In Lafayette, Louisiana, part of Lafayette Parish, Milton Elementary School is an elementary school. The school counted 1,261 students in 2024-25, covering pre-K through 8. The school is 178% bigger than the average for elementary schools in Louisiana.
Lafayette Parish has 29,396 students spread across 44 schools.
More than half of the students at Milton Elementary School are White (78%). The next largest groups are 10% Black, 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. In Lafayette Parish overall, about 63% of residents are White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Milton Elementary School scores 37%.
On staff are 63.1 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 20.0:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Louisiana average 14.0:1. Milton Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 33%. It compares with 59% for public schools in Lafayette Parish.
Milton Elementary School earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 83% of Louisiana public elementary schools.
The model predicts 60.9% for a school in Louisiana with Milton Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Milton Elementary School posts 60.3%.
In Lafayette Parish, median household income comes to about $67,451, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 35% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 13%. Lafayette Parish counts 50 public schools with about 35,903 students.
Milton Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is Cecil Picard Elementary School at Maurice, about 2.8 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, 7 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 60.3% is above the 58.6% average for nearby schools.
NCES assigns Milton Elementary School the locale Suburb: Mid-size, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The school's student count rose 4% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
Milton Elementary School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Lafayette Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
247,997
Census ACS
Median income
$67,451
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
50
35,903 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lafayette Parish
- Southside High SchoolHigh · 1,833 students
- Lafayette High SchoolHigh · 1,720 students
- Acadiana High SchoolHigh · 1,652 students
- David Thibodaux STEM Magnet AcademyHigh · 1,362 students
- Carencro High SchoolHigh · 1,116 students
- J. Wallace James Elementary SchoolElementary · 957 students
Other schools in Lafayette
- Lafayette Renaissance Charter AcademyCombined · 2,177 students
- Lafayette High SchoolHigh · 1,720 students
- Acadiana High SchoolHigh · 1,652 students
- David Thibodaux STEM Magnet AcademyHigh · 1,362 students
- Carencro High SchoolHigh · 1,116 students
- L.J. Alleman Middle SchoolMiddle · 890 students
Other Milton Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 7 states are named Milton Elementary. Milton Elementary School is the largest of the 7.
- Milton Elementary SchoolLAREDO, TX · 651 students
- Milton Elementary SchoolMilton, VT · 625 students
- Milton Elementary SchoolMilton, DE · 582 students
- Milton Elementary SchoolMilton, WV · 509 students
- Milton Elementary SchoolMilton, NH · 237 students
Nearby schools
- Cecil Picard Elementary School at Maurice2.8 mi · 592
- Ernest Gallet Elementary School3.8 mi · 643
- Acadiana Renaissance Charter Academy4.3 mi · 3,669
- O. Comeaux High School4.5 mi · 873
- Green T. Lindon Elementary School4.8 mi · 719
- Broadmoor Elementary School4.8 mi · 749
Frequently asked questions
About Milton Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Milton Elementary School?
Milton Elementary School enrolls approximately 1,261 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does Milton Elementary School serve?
Milton Elementary School serves grades PK-08.
How many teachers does Milton Elementary School have?
Milton Elementary School employs 63 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Milton Elementary School?
Student demographics at Milton Elementary School are roughly 78% White, 4% Hispanic, 10% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Milton Elementary School?
Milton Elementary School is overseen by Lafayette Parish in Lafayette Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.