Park Forest Elementary School

Park Forest Elementary School is one of the middle-of-the-pack K-5 schools in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, overseen by East Baton Rouge Parish, with 474 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

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

On the student-mix side, Park Forest Elementary School lists that the largest single group is Black, at 75% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 22% Hispanic. By comparison, East Baton Rouge Parish as a whole is about 44% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Park Forest Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 75% of students at Park Forest Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Park Forest Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 30.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 27.3%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for East Baton Rouge Parish put the typical household earns roughly $63,071 per year, 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), Park Forest Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Park Forest Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Park Forest Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 18.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 42%: 334 students in 2018 compared to 474 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 15% to 22% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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