Westminster Elementary School

Westminster Elementary School is one of the low-enrollment elementary campuss in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, one of the schools within East Baton Rouge Parish, with 208 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 54% below the state mean of about 453.

East Baton Rouge Parish runs 83 schools in total, collectively educating 40,083 students. Westminster Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Westminster Elementary School records that 72% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest looks like 20% Hispanic, 4% White. By comparison, East Baton Rouge Parish as a whole is about 44% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Westminster Elementary School lists 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 84% of students at Westminster Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against East Baton Rouge Parish (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Westminster Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.9%; this one delivers 20.3%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for East Baton Rouge Parish put the typical household earns roughly $63,071 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, East Baton Rouge Parish runs 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students), of which Westminster Elementary School is one.

Jefferson Terrace Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Westminster Elementary School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.9%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Westminster Elementary School has declined 47%, going from 392 students in 2018 to 208 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 11% to 20% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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