Ryan Elementary School

Ryan Elementary School is a compact elementary school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, part of East Baton Rouge Parish. The school caters to 205 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 453 students per school, that is 55% below typical.

East Baton Rouge Parish comprises 83 schools with combined enrollment of 40,083 students; Ryan Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Ryan Elementary School shows that 100% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. By comparison, East Baton Rouge Parish as a whole is about 44% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Ryan Elementary School has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. The state averages about 14.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against East Baton Rouge Parish (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Ryan Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 15.1%, the actual is 19.7%, a residual of +4.6 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for East Baton Rouge Parish put the typical household earns roughly $63,071 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, East Baton Rouge Parish runs 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students), of which Ryan Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Scotlandville Magnet High School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ryan Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ryan Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 19.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 53%: 435 students in 2018 compared to 205 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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