Enrollment
219
Elementary
DISTRICT 311 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ACADIA PARISH·NCES 220003000023
South Rayne Elementary School
101 East Branche Street, Rayne, LA 70578 · (337) 334-3610 · Acadia Parish
GRADES 04–05ELEMENTARY31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL219 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 76% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Louisiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.5:1
13 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
182 students
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 70%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 4 | 103 | 47% |
| Grade 5 | 116 | 53% |
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 65% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Acadia Parish. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
48.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +5.0pp since 2022
Math
45.0%
LA avg 34.2% . -2.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 2 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 48.0% | 45.0% |
| 2024-25 | 45.0% | 37.0% |
| 2023-24 | 41.0% | 39.0% |
| 2022-23 | 43.0% | 47.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of LA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
39.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
24.5%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 24% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Louisiana's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like South Rayne Elementary School
South Rayne Elementary School's state test result (39.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Rayne Elementary School this school | 219 | 83.1% | 39.3% |
| North Crowley Elementary School Crowley | 254 | 83.1% | 20.0% |
| Eunice Elementary School Eunice | 188 | 86.7% | 19.0% |
| Boley Elementary School West Monroe | 279 | 78.9% | 52.3% |
| Ringgold Elementary School Ringgold | 195 | 79.5% | 28.2% |
| M. J. Kaufman Elementary School Lake Charles | 308 | 82.1% | 33.7% |
Matched among Louisiana elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where South Rayne Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Acadia Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.3% | #224 of 583 | #9 of 15 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #171 of 582 ▲ 75 | #8 of 15 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #211 of 587 ▲ 30 | #9 of 15 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.5pp | #227 of 540 | #3 of 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 219 | #634 of 714 | #12 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.5:1 | #589 of 655 | #7 of 14 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.8% | #99 of 655 | #2 of 14 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.1% | #223 of 705 | #6 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.7% | #260 of 436 | #9 of 10 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
219
-24 (-10%) vs 2020
-40% since 1990-91, when it was 364
Student : Teacher
16.5:1
was 20.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 219 | 13.3 | 16.5:1 | 83% (182) |
| 2023-24 | 231 | 13.2 | 17.5:1 | 82% (189) |
| 2022-23 | 201 | 11 | 18.3:1 | 80% (160) |
| 2020-21 | 243 | 12 | 20.3:1 | 65% (159) |
| 2017-18 | 251 | 12 | 20.9:1 | 59% (148) |
| 2015-16 | 267 | 15 | 17.8:1 | 66% (176) |
| 2010-11 | 271 | 15 | 18.1:1 | 86% (234) |
| 2000-01 | 333 | 20 | 16.6:1 | 74% (246) |
| 1990-91 | 364 | 19 | 19.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for South Rayne Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (251 to 219); teachers up 10% (12 to 13.3).
About South Rayne Elementary School
South Rayne Elementary School is a small elementary school that serves part of Rayne, Louisiana. The school serves 219 students in grades 4 through 5 in 2024-25. For comparison, elementary schools in Louisiana average about 453 students.
South Rayne Elementary School is part of Acadia Parish, where 27 schools serve 9,043 students.
South Rayne Elementary School's enrollment has no majority group, and Black students are the largest at 47%. It is also 35% White, 11% multiracial, and 7% Hispanic. Acadia Parish's residents are about 16% Black, 31 points below the school's share. The chance that two students picked at random at South Rayne Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 64%.
The school has about 16.5 students per teacher and 13.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. That ratio is over the 14.0:1 average for elementary schools in Louisiana. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 83%. That is higher than the 67% average for public schools in Acadia Parish.
The allk12 Grade for South Rayne Elementary School is A-. Compared with Louisiana public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 76% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, South Rayne Elementary School would score about 24.5%. It scores 39.3%, a top-10% result among Louisiana schools on BeatsExpectations.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Acadia Parish show that median household income is about $45,562, 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 20% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 27 public schools in Acadia Parish, with a combined enrollment of about 9,043.
The closest other public school is Martin Petitjean Elementary School, about 0.7 miles away. Around the school, 4 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, South Rayne Elementary School is 3rd of 6 on proficiency.
NCES describes the area around South Rayne Elementary School as Town: Fringe, meaning in a town close to an urbanized area.
South Rayne Elementary School had 243 students in 2020-21 and 219 in 2024-25, a 10% decrease. The ratio of students to teachers went from 20.3:1 to 16.5:1 over the same years.
Community posts for South Rayne Elementary School can cover sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Acadia Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
56,955
Census ACS
Median income
$45,562
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
14%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
20%
Below federal line
Schools in county
27
9,043 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Acadia Parish
- Mire Elementary SchoolElementary · 662 students
- Rayne High SchoolHigh · 653 students
- Iota Elementary SchoolElementary · 585 students
- Iota High SchoolHigh · 566 students
- Church Point High SchoolHigh · 504 students
- Crowley High SchoolHigh · 495 students
Other schools in Rayne
- Mire Elementary SchoolElementary · 662 students
- Rayne High SchoolHigh · 653 students
- Martin Petitjean Elementary SchoolElementary · 306 students
- Armstrong Middle SchoolMiddle · 304 students
- Indian Bayou Elementary SchoolElementary · 217 students
- Central Rayne Kindergarten SchoolElementary · 173 students
Nearby schools
- Martin Petitjean Elementary School0.7 mi · 306
- Central Rayne Kindergarten School1.0 mi · 173
- Armstrong Middle School1.4 mi · 304
- Rayne High School1.4 mi · 653
- Duson Elementary School5.3 mi · 229
- South Crowley Elementary School6.3 mi · 320
Frequently asked questions
About South Rayne Elementary SchoolHow many students attend South Rayne Elementary School?
South Rayne Elementary School enrolls approximately 219 students in grades 04-05.
What age range does South Rayne Elementary School serve?
South Rayne Elementary School serves students from grade 04 through grade 05.
How many teachers does South Rayne Elementary School have?
South Rayne Elementary School employs 13 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.5:1.
How diverse is South Rayne Elementary School?
South Rayne Elementary School reports a student body of 35% White, 7% Hispanic, 47% Black, 11% Two or more.
Who oversees South Rayne Elementary School?
South Rayne Elementary School is overseen by Acadia Parish in Acadia Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.