Waller Elementary School

Located at 1130 Patricia Drive, in Bossier City, Louisiana, Waller Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus that caters to 424 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Bossier Parish.

Across the 34 schools in Bossier Parish (22,233 students total), Waller Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Waller Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is Black (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 27% Hispanic, 17% White, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Waller Elementary School has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.2:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 78% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Bossier Parish (around 53%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Waller Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Louisiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 28.4%; Waller Elementary School posts 10.3%, -18.1 points below that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Bossier Parish indicate the typical household earns roughly $69,617 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bossier Parish runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,233 students), of which Waller Elementary School is one.

R. V. Kerr Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Waller Elementary School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 22.4%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Waller Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 13% since 2018, when it stood at 485 (now 424). The White share of enrollment edged down from 26% to 17% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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