Seventh Ward Elementary School

Seventh Ward Elementary School, a small primary school in Denham Springs, Louisiana, overseen by Livingston Parish, instructs 382 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Livingston Parish comprises 43 schools with combined enrollment of 27,209 students; Seventh Ward Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Seventh Ward Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 67%. Beyond that, the school reports 14% Black, 12% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 62% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Livingston Parish's rate of about 73%.

After controlling for student poverty, Seventh Ward Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.7%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Livingston Parish shows the typical household earns roughly $80,122 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Livingston Parish runs 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,209 students), of which Seventh Ward Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Juban Parc Junior High School, around 1.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Seventh Ward Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.2%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Seventh Ward Elementary School has climbed 37%, going from 279 students in 2018 to 382 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 82% to 67% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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