Minnie Ruffin Elementary School

Minnie Ruffin Elementary School, an intimate elementary school in Monroe, Louisiana, one of the schools within City of Monroe School District, works with 354 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 22% below the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 453 students.

City of Monroe School District comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 8,033 students; Minnie Ruffin Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Minnie Ruffin Elementary School reports that 97% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 37%.

On the resource side, On paper, Minnie Ruffin Elementary School has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Ouachita Parish (around 67%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Minnie Ruffin Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 16.7%, the actual is 11.7%, a residual of -5.0 points.

In the area at large, Ouachita Parish reports that the typical household earns roughly $54,688 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 18%. In all, Ouachita Parish runs 59 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,952 students), of which Minnie Ruffin Elementary School is one.

Martin Luther King Junior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Minnie Ruffin Elementary School at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 11.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Minnie Ruffin Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 38% since 2018, when it stood at 569 (now 354). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Minnie Ruffin Elementary School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.