Sixth Ward Elementary School

Located at 72360 Highway 41, in Pearl River, Louisiana, Sixth Ward Elementary School is a small elementary-level community that serves 335 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under St. Tammany Parish. Enrollment runs roughly 26% smaller than the state mean of about 453.

Sixth Ward Elementary School is one of 55 schools operated by St. Tammany Parish, a district that works with 35,956 students overall.

Demographically, Sixth Ward Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%); the rest looks like 6% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Sixth Ward Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 60% of students at Sixth Ward Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, St. Tammany Parish runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sixth Ward Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.1%, the actual is 50.0%, a residual of +8.9 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (St. Tammany Parish) shows that median household earnings sit near $81,202, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Sixth Ward Elementary School is one of 56 public schools in St. Tammany Parish (combined enrollment of about 36,212 students).

Nearest neighbor: Nicholson Elementary, around 7.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

Sixth Ward Elementary School operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Sixth Ward Elementary School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 332 (now 335). Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.

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