Northeast Elementary School

Set in Opelousas, Louisiana, Northeast Elementary School is a cozy elementary campus, run under St. Landry Parish. It serves 232 students across grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 453 students per school, that is 49% smaller than typical.

St. Landry Parish runs 32 schools in total, collectively educating 10,982 students. Northeast Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Northeast Elementary School shows that 93% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest consists of 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 40% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Northeast Elementary School shows 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Northeast Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, St. Landry Parish runs at roughly 80%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Northeast Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.4%, the actual is 19.7%, a residual of +0.3 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for St. Landry Parish shows the typical household earns roughly $44,462 per year, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 22%. Across St. Landry Parish's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,731 students), Northeast Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Opelousas Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Northeast Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Northeast Elementary School at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 26.2%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 48%: 446 students in 2018 compared to 232 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.