Swartz Lower Elementary School

Set in Monroe, Louisiana, Swartz Lower Elementary School is a tight-knit elementary campus, run under Ouachita Parish. It serves 325 students across grades pre-K through 2. That puts it 28% below the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 453 students.

Across the 36 schools in Ouachita Parish (17,435 students total), Swartz Lower Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Swartz Lower Elementary School logs that 48% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 43% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 56%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Swartz Lower Elementary School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. About 65% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Ouachita Parish shows median household income runs about $54,688, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 18%. Swartz Lower Elementary School is one of 59 public schools in Ouachita Parish (combined enrollment of about 25,952 students).

Nearest neighbor: Swartz Upper Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Swartz Lower Elementary School.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 27%: 446 students in 2018 compared to 325 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 60% to 48%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 in 2025.

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