Rayville Elementary School

Rayville Elementary School, a tight-knit elementary-level community in Rayville, Louisiana, run under Richland Parish, serves 333 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 26% below the state mean of about 453.

Rayville Elementary School is one of 11 schools operated by Richland Parish, a district that caters to 2,694 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Rayville Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (94%). Other groups include 4% White. By comparison, Richland Parish as a whole is about 36% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Richland Parish's rate of about 76%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Rayville Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 16.0%, the actual is 5.7%, a residual of -10.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Richland Parish put the typical household earns roughly $53,544 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 19%. In all, Richland Parish runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,312 students), of which Rayville Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Rayville Junior High School, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Rayville Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Rayville Elementary School at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 29.1%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rayville Elementary School has decreased 9%, going from 367 students in 2018 to 333 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment increased from 87% to 94% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 in 2025.

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