The Dufrocq School

Set in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, The Dufrocq School is a mid-sized primary school, part of East Baton Rouge Parish. It hosts 431 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 83 schools in East Baton Rouge Parish (40,083 students total), The Dufrocq School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, The Dufrocq School reports that 86% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder comes out to 7% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, East Baton Rouge Parish as a whole is about 44% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The Dufrocq School reports 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.6:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, The Dufrocq School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.6%, the actual is 23.0%, a residual of -8.6 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for East Baton Rouge Parish put the typical household earns roughly $63,071 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across East Baton Rouge Parish's 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students), The Dufrocq School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Baton Rouge Magnet High School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around The Dufrocq School. On composite proficiency, The Dufrocq School comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 24.1%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. The Dufrocq School's enrollment has contracted 34% since 2018, when it stood at 653 (now 431). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.