Northeast Elementary School

Northeast Elementary School is a rural-scale K-5 school in Pride, Louisiana, run under East Baton Rouge Parish. The school educates 178 students in grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 61% leaner than the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 453 students.

East Baton Rouge Parish runs 83 schools in total, collectively educating 40,083 students. Northeast Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Northeast Elementary School records that the largest single group is Black, at 62% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 24% White, 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 44% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Northeast Elementary School has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.2:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 87% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, East Baton Rouge Parish runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Northeast Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.2%; this one delivers 16.3%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (East Baton Rouge Parish) reports that median household earnings sit near $63,071, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across East Baton Rouge Parish's 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students), Northeast Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Northeast High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Northeast Elementary School comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.8%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. Northeast Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 42% since 2018, when it stood at 307 (now 178). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 6% to 10%. Class-load math has fell: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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