Port Barre Elementary School

Port Barre Elementary School operates as a reasonably sized primary school in Port Barre, Louisiana, part of St. Landry Parish. Current enrollment sits at 427 students spanning grades pre-K through 4.

St. Landry Parish comprises 32 schools with combined enrollment of 10,982 students; Port Barre Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Port Barre Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 23% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, St. Landry Parish as a whole is about 52% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 74% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Port Barre Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.3%, the actual is 41.3%, a residual of +10.0 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for St. Landry Parish indicate the typical household earns roughly $44,462 per year, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 22% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, St. Landry Parish runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,731 students), of which Port Barre Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Port Barre High School, around 0.5 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Port Barre Elementary School at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 28.1%.

Port Barre Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 5%: 451 students in 2018 compared to 427 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment fell from 35% to 23% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

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