Swartz Upper Elementary School

Swartz Upper Elementary School is a small elementary school for students in Monroe, Louisiana. The school offers grades 3 through 5 and enrolls 350 students. On average, elementary schools in Louisiana enroll around 453, and this school is 23% below that mark.

Ouachita Parish is responsible for 36 schools, Swartz Upper Elementary School included, with 17,435 students in all.

The student body at Swartz Upper Elementary School has no majority group. Black students lead at 47%. The next largest groups are 42% White, 6% multiracial, and 5% Hispanic. The school's Black share is 10 points above the 37% share among Ouachita Parish residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 60%.

Classroom staffing at Swartz Upper Elementary School totals 19.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 17.6:1. The average for elementary schools in Louisiana is 14.0:1, so this school has more students per teacher. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Swartz Upper Elementary School is about 66%. That is in line with the 67% average for public schools in Ouachita Parish.

Swartz Upper Elementary School earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 35% of Louisiana public elementary schools.

In Louisiana, Swartz Upper Elementary School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 30.8% actual against a predicted 36.6%.

The school is in Ouachita Parish, where median household income comes to about $54,688, roughly 29% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 18% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Ouachita Parish's 59 public schools enroll about 25,952 students and include Swartz Upper Elementary School.

Swartz Upper Elementary School's nearest public school is Swartz Lower Elementary School (about 0.2 miles). A five-mile radius around the school includes 7 other public schools. Among the 6 closest schools with test data, this one included, Swartz Upper Elementary School ranks 1st on average proficiency.

By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Mid-size, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 350, starting from 350.

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