Ringgold Elementary School

Ringgold Elementary School is an elementary-level community of small scale in Ringgold, Louisiana, run under Bienville Parish, works with 195 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 57% smaller than the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 453 students.

Ringgold Elementary School is one of 7 schools operated by Bienville Parish, a district that works with 1,799 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Ringgold Elementary School reports that 50% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 44% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Bienville Parish as a whole is about 40% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Ringgold Elementary School shows 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Ringgold Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 79% of students at Ringgold Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Ringgold Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.2%; this one delivers 23.0%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Bienville Parish indicate the typical household earns roughly $35,011 per year, 13% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 22% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bienville Parish runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,799 students), of which Ringgold Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Ringgold High School, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Ringgold Elementary School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 31.0%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ringgold Elementary School has decreased 28%, going from 269 students in 2018 to 195 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged up from 38% to 44%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 7.8:1 today.

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