Upper Pointe Coupee Elementary School

Set in Batchelor, Louisiana, Upper Pointe Coupee Elementary School is an intimate elementary campus, operated by Pointe Coupee Parish. It educates 241 students across grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 47% leaner than the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 453 students.

Across the 5 schools in Pointe Coupee Parish (2,293 students total), Upper Pointe Coupee Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Upper Pointe Coupee Elementary School reports that 60% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder reads as 26% Hispanic, 13% White. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

On the resource side, Upper Pointe Coupee Elementary School records 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Upper Pointe Coupee Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Upper Pointe Coupee Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 31.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 19.3%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Pointe Coupee Parish indicate median household earnings sit near $65,961, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Pointe Coupee Parish runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,293 students), of which Upper Pointe Coupee Elementary School is one.

Riverside Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 13.0 miles from this campus. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Upper Pointe Coupee Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 35.3%.

Upper Pointe Coupee Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Upper Pointe Coupee Elementary School has contracted 24%, going from 316 students in 2018 to 241 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 10% to 26% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.