Verda Elementary School

Verda Elementary School, a cozy elementary campus in Montgomery, Louisiana, overseen by Grant Parish, hosts 308 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Verda Elementary School sits 32% leaner than that benchmark.

Grant Parish runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 2,871 students. Verda Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Verda Elementary School shows that White students make up the majority at 67%. Other groups include 25% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Grant Parish as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Verda Elementary School shows 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Grant Parish's rate of about 68%.

With demographic context factored in, Verda Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.9%; this one delivers 24.0%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Grant Parish shows median household income runs about $64,016, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Grant Parish runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,871 students), of which Verda Elementary School is one.

Montgomery High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 7.5 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, Verda Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 22.2%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Verda Elementary School's enrollment has ticked up 26% since 2018, when it stood at 244 (now 308). Black enrollment moved from 8% to 25% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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