M.R. Weaver Elementary School

As a modestly sized K-5 school in Natchitoches, Louisiana, M.R. Weaver Elementary School educates 379 students from grades 3 through 4, overseen by Natchitoches Parish.

Natchitoches Parish runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 4,792 students. M.R. Weaver Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, M.R. Weaver Elementary School lists that 79% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 8% White, 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 40% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 97% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Natchitoches Parish's rate of about 84%.

After controlling for student poverty, M.R. Weaver Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 14.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 27.0%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Natchitoches Parish put the typical household earns roughly $46,292 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 18%. In all, Natchitoches Parish runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,064 students), of which M.R. Weaver Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: East Natchitoches Elementary & Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, M.R. Weaver Elementary School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.8%.

M.R. Weaver Elementary School operates from a town-center location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at M.R. Weaver Elementary School has fell 20%, going from 476 students in 2018 to 379 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 20% to 8% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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