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What's one thing Minnie Ruffin Elementary School gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
354
Elementary
DISTRICT 375 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CITY OF MONROE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 220108000800
Minnie Ruffin Elementary School
1801 Parkvidw Drive, Monroe, LA 71202 · (318) 322-3447 · Ouachita Parish
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL354 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 22% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- DTest 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.
- 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
11.0:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
334 students
DISTRICT 86% · STATE 70%
Community
1
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 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 39 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 60 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 44 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 40 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 45 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 42 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (39) is 7% smaller than its 6th grade class (42).
Student demographics
5%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 31% · 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
28.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +14.0pp since 2022
Math
15.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +9.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 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 14 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 9 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 28.0% | 15.0% |
| 2024-25 | 23.0% | 12.0% |
| 2023-24 | 19.0% | 7.0% |
| 2022-23 | 14.0% | 6.0% |
% 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
13.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
16.4%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 13% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 16% 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 Minnie Ruffin Elementary School
Minnie Ruffin Elementary School's state test result (13.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnie Ruffin Elementary School this school | 354 | 94.4% | 13.2% |
| Robinson Elementary School Monroe | 374 | 94.4% | 18.5% |
| Rayville Elementary School Rayville | 333 | 94.9% | 5.7% |
| J. S. Clark Elementary School Shreveport | 387 | 94.6% | 13.8% |
| Roy Neal Shelling Sr. Elementary Monroe | 391 | 95.7% | 8.8% |
| Winnsboro Elementary School Winnsboro | 366 | 93.4% | 8.8% |
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 Minnie Ruffin Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Ouachita Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 13.2% | #542 of 583 | #25 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.0% | #505 of 582 ▲ 28 | #20 of 30 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.0% | #443 of 587 ▲ 55 | #18 of 30 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +11.5pp | #38 of 540 | #2 of 29 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 354 | #470 of 714 | #18 of 36 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.0:1 | #87 of 655 | #3 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 5.0% | #642 of 655 | #26 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.4% | #64 of 705 | #10 of 35 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -37.8% | #31 of 436 | #1 of 26 |
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
354
-67 (-16%) vs 2020
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 383
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
was 15.0:1
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 | 354 | 32.3 | 11.0:1 | 94% (334) |
| 2023-24 | 404 | 33.5 | 12.1:1 | 89% (360) |
| 2022-23 | 423 | 28.7 | 14.8:1 | 90% (380) |
| 2020-21 | 421 | 28 | 15.0:1 | 89% (373) |
| 2017-18 | 569 | 29 | 19.6:1 | 75% (429) |
| 2015-16 | 578 | N/A | N/A | 84% (486) |
| 2010-11 | 587 | 34 | 17.3:1 | 81% (473) |
| 2000-01 | 534 | 27 | 19.8:1 | 81% (431) |
| 1990-91 | 383 | 20 | 19.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Minnie Ruffin Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 38% (569 to 354); teachers up 11% (29 to 32.3).
About Minnie Ruffin Elementary School
Minnie Ruffin Elementary School is a small elementary school for students in Monroe, Louisiana. It had 354 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 6. Elementary schools in Louisiana average about 453 students, which makes this school 22% below average.
City of Monroe School District serves 8,033 students across 19 schools.
Black students are 97% of those enrolled at Minnie Ruffin Elementary School. In Ouachita Parish overall, about 37% of residents are Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 5, compared with 70 nationally.
For every teacher at Minnie Ruffin Elementary School, there are about 11.0 students; the school has 32.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Louisiana is 14.0:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. There are 334 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 94% of enrollment. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Ouachita Parish is 67%.
On the allk12 Grade, Minnie Ruffin Elementary School lands at C-, ahead of 22% of Louisiana public elementary schools.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Minnie Ruffin Elementary School would be expected to post about 16.4%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 13.2%.
The school is in Ouachita Parish, where the median household earns about $54,688 a year, about 29% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 18% of residents are in poverty. Across Ouachita Parish, 59 public schools serve about 25,952 students.
The closest school to Minnie Ruffin Elementary School is Martin Luther King Junior High School, located about 0.1 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Minnie Ruffin Elementary School. In a group of 7 nearby schools with scores, Minnie Ruffin Elementary School ranks 5th on average proficiency.
Minnie Ruffin Elementary School is coded as City: Small in federal locale data.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 354, compared with 421 in 2020-21. Students per teacher dropped from 15.0 in 2020-21 to 11.0 in 2024-25.
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Ouachita Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
158,480
Census ACS
Median income
$54,688
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
18%
Below federal line
Schools in county
59
25,952 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in City of Monroe School District
- Neville High SchoolHigh · 1,042 students
- Wossman High SchoolHigh · 635 students
- Sallie Humble Elementary SchoolElementary · 579 students
- Carroll High SchoolHigh · 577 students
- Lexington Elementary SchoolElementary · 547 students
- Neville Junior High SchoolMiddle · 474 students
Other schools in Monroe
- Ouachita Parish High SchoolHigh · 1,112 students
- Neville High SchoolHigh · 1,042 students
- Wossman High SchoolHigh · 635 students
- Sallie Humble Elementary SchoolElementary · 579 students
- Carroll High SchoolHigh · 577 students
- Lexington Elementary SchoolElementary · 547 students
Nearby schools
- Martin Luther King Junior High School0.1 mi · 350
- Wossman High School0.2 mi · 635
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary0.6 mi · 268
- Clara Hall Accelerated School0.7 mi · 260
- Swayze Elementary School0.7 mi · 175
- Carver Elementary School0.8 mi · 395
Frequently asked questions
About Minnie Ruffin Elementary SchoolHow large is Minnie Ruffin Elementary School?
Minnie Ruffin Elementary School enrolls approximately 354 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Minnie Ruffin Elementary School serve?
Minnie Ruffin Elementary School serves grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Minnie Ruffin Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Minnie Ruffin Elementary School is approximately 11.0:1 (32 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Minnie Ruffin Elementary School?
At Minnie Ruffin Elementary School, the student body is approximately 1% White, 1% Hispanic, 97% Black, 1% Two or more.
What district is Minnie Ruffin Elementary School in?
Minnie Ruffin Elementary School is part of City of Monroe School District.
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