Swayze Elementary School

Set in Monroe, Louisiana, Swayze Elementary School is an one-room-style elementary campus, part of Ouachita Parish. It teaches 175 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Swayze Elementary School sits 61% below that benchmark.

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

On demographics, Swayze Elementary School logs that 100% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. By comparison, Ouachita Parish as a whole is about 37% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Swayze Elementary School shows 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Ouachita Parish (around 67%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Swayze Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 18.3%, the actual is 13.7%, a residual of -4.7 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Ouachita Parish indicate the typical household earns roughly $54,688 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 18%. Swayze Elementary School is one of 59 public schools in Ouachita Parish (combined enrollment of about 25,952 students).

Nearest neighbor: Berg Jones Elementary School, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Swayze Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 10.6%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 21%: 221 students in 2018 compared to 175 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 in 2025.

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