St. Helena Early Learning Center

St. Helena Early Learning Center, a close-knit elementary school in Greensburg, Louisiana, operated by St. Helena Parish, teaches 271 students, covering grades pre-K through 2. Enrollment runs roughly 40% leaner than the state mean of about 453.

St. Helena Parish comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 997 students; St. Helena Early Learning Center is among them.

On demographics, St. Helena Early Learning Center logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (85%). The remainder looks like 7% White, 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 51% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, St. Helena Early Learning Center has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (St. Helena Parish) logs that median household income runs about $41,934, 11% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 24%. Across St. Helena Parish's 3 public schools (combined enrollment of about 997 students), St. Helena Early Learning Center is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is St. Helena Arts and Technology Academy, roughly 0.2 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at St. Helena Early Learning Center has contracted 17%, going from 325 students in 2018 to 271 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the St. Helena Early Learning Center community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.