West Leesville Elementary School

West Leesville Elementary School is one of the moderately sized elementary campuss in Leesville, Louisiana, part of Vernon Parish, with 643 students on its rolls from grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 42% bigger than the state mean of about 453.

Vernon Parish runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 7,887 students. West Leesville Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, West Leesville Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is White (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 29% Black, 14% Hispanic, 11% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, West Leesville Elementary School has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 81% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Vernon Parish (around 64%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), West Leesville Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.0%, the actual is 28.0%, a residual of +2.0 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Vernon Parish indicate the typical household earns roughly $57,270 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. In all, Vernon Parish runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,887 students), of which West Leesville Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Vernon Middle School, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around West Leesville Elementary School. On composite proficiency, West Leesville Elementary School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 35.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. West Leesville Elementary School's enrollment has ticked up 53% since 2018, when it stood at 421 (now 643). Hispanic enrollment moved from 8% to 14% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

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