Ralph F. Wilson Elementary School

Located at 1400 Opelousas Street, in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Ralph F. Wilson Elementary School is a micro-enrollment primary school that hosts 92 students (grades 3 through 5), part of Calcasieu Parish. Enrollment runs roughly 80% below the state mean of about 453.

Calcasieu Parish comprises 56 schools with combined enrollment of 27,851 students; Ralph F. Wilson Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Ralph F. Wilson Elementary School lists that 96% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 3% multiracial. By comparison, Calcasieu Parish as a whole is about 23% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Ralph F. Wilson Elementary School has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 7.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Calcasieu Parish (around 59%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Ralph F. Wilson Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 15.7%, the actual is 14.0%, a residual of -1.7 points.

Around the school, Calcasieu Parish reports that median household income runs about $67,564, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Calcasieu Parish runs 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,278 students), of which Ralph F. Wilson Elementary School is one.

John J. Johnson II Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ralph F. Wilson Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Ralph F. Wilson Elementary School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 31.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 59%: 222 students in 2018 compared to 92 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 7.4:1 in 2025.

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