Wedgewood Elementary School

Wedgewood Elementary School operates as a moderately sized primary school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, part of East Baton Rouge Parish. Current enrollment sits at 456 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

East Baton Rouge Parish comprises 83 schools with combined enrollment of 40,083 students; Wedgewood Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Wedgewood Elementary School logs that Black students make up the majority at 64%. The remainder looks like 25% Hispanic, 6% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 44% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 83% of students at Wedgewood Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against East Baton Rouge Parish (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Wedgewood Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.8%, the actual is 25.3%, a residual of +0.5 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for East Baton Rouge Parish put median household earnings sit near $63,071, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. In all, East Baton Rouge Parish runs 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students), of which Wedgewood Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Southeast Middle School, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wedgewood Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 27.2%.

Wedgewood Elementary School operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Wedgewood Elementary School's enrollment has fell 21% since 2018, when it stood at 576 (now 456). Hispanic enrollment moved from 8% to 25% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.