Raintree Elementary School

Raintree Elementary School, a tight-knit K-5 school in Baldwin, Louisiana, overseen by St. Mary Parish, works with 254 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 453 students per school, that is 44% leaner than typical.

St. Mary Parish runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 7,153 students. Raintree Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Raintree Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Black, at 74% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 15% White, 9% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above St. Mary Parish's rate of about 75%.

With demographic context factored in, Raintree Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Louisiana schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 18.8%; actual is 36.3%, +17.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (St. Mary Parish) shows that median household earnings sit near $52,576, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 18%. Across St. Mary Parish's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,765 students), Raintree Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: B. Edward Boudreaux Middle School, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Raintree Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Raintree Elementary School at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 23.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Looking at the recent track record. Raintree Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 48% since 2018, when it stood at 484 (now 254). Over the same period, the Black share fell from 80% to 74%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

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