Parkway Elementary School

Parkway Elementary School is a K-5 school of average-sized scale in Leesville, Louisiana, overseen by Vernon Parish, enrolling 675 students in grades K through 4. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Parkway Elementary School sits 49% above that benchmark.

Vernon Parish runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 7,887 students. Parkway Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Parkway Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 22% Hispanic, 18% Black, 10% multiracial. By comparison, Vernon Parish as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Parkway Elementary School has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 38% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Vernon Parish's rate of about 64%.

After controlling for student poverty, Parkway Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.5%, the actual is 44.0%, a residual of -12.5 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Vernon Parish indicate the typical household earns roughly $57,270 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. In all, Vernon Parish runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,887 students), of which Parkway Elementary School is one.

North Early Childhood Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Parkway Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Parkway Elementary School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 31.8%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Parkway Elementary School has ticked up 13%, going from 599 students in 2018 to 675 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 15% to 22% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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