Ruby-Wise Elementary School

Ruby-Wise Elementary School, a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Pineville, Louisiana, one of the schools within Rapides Parish, caters to 410 students, covering grades pre-K through 6.

Within Rapides Parish, which oversees 43 schools and 21,340 students, Ruby-Wise Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Ruby-Wise Elementary School records that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 3% Black. By comparison, Rapides Parish as a whole is about 61% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 65% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Rapides Parish's rate of about 77%.

After controlling for student poverty, Ruby-Wise Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.5%, the actual is 50.7%, a residual of +13.2 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Rapides Parish indicate the typical household earns roughly $54,967 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Rapides Parish runs 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,481 students), of which Ruby-Wise Elementary School is one.

Acadian Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 6.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Ruby-Wise Elementary School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 42.6%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Over the past 7-year window. Ruby-Wise Elementary School's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 416 (now 410). White enrollment moved from 93% to 88% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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