Norco Elementary School

Norco Elementary School operates as a reasonably sized elementary campus in Norco, Louisiana, overseen by St. Charles Parish. Current enrollment sits at 501 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

St. Charles Parish runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 8,756 students. Norco Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Norco Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 12% Black, 7% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.1:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 39% of students at Norco Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than St. Charles Parish's rate of about 48%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Norco Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.4%, the actual is 57.3%, a residual of +0.9 points.

Across the wider county, St. Charles Parish reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,897 per year, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, St. Charles Parish runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,756 students), of which Norco Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School, roughly 3.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Norco Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Norco Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 36.8%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Norco Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 6% since 2018, when it stood at 531 (now 501). Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 18% to 12%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 today.

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