South Walker Elementary School

Set in Walker, Louisiana, South Walker Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary-level community, overseen by Livingston Parish. It serves 518 students across grades pre-K through 5.

South Walker Elementary School is one of 43 schools operated by Livingston Parish, a district that hosts 27,209 students overall.

On demographics, South Walker Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 55% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 19% Black, 17% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.

On the resource side, South Walker Elementary School records 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. The state averages about 14.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, South Walker Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Louisiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 26.5%; South Walker Elementary School posts 44.2%, +17.7 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Livingston Parish) records that the typical household earns roughly $80,122 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. South Walker Elementary School is one of 44 public schools in Livingston Parish (combined enrollment of about 27,209 students).

Nearest neighbor: Walker Junior High, around 1.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, South Walker Elementary School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 43.7%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 23%: 672 students in 2018 compared to 518 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 74% to 55% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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