Thomas Jefferson Elementary

Thomas Jefferson Elementary operates as a close-knit primary school in Monroe, Louisiana, one of the schools within City of Monroe School District. Current enrollment sits at 268 students spanning grades 3 through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 41% below the state mean of about 453.

Across the 19 schools in City of Monroe School District (8,033 students total), Thomas Jefferson Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Thomas Jefferson Elementary reports that 98% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The wider county runs roughly 37% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Thomas Jefferson Elementary records 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Roughly 97% of students at Thomas Jefferson Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Ouachita Parish's rate of about 67%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Thomas Jefferson Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 14.8%, the actual is 12.3%, a residual of -2.4 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Ouachita Parish) logs that the typical household earns roughly $54,688 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 18%. In all, Ouachita Parish runs 59 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,952 students), of which Thomas Jefferson Elementary is one.

Clara Hall Accelerated School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Thomas Jefferson Elementary comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 11.8%.

Thomas Jefferson Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Thomas Jefferson Elementary's enrollment has rose 4% since 2018, when it stood at 257 (now 268). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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