White Hills Elementary School

White Hills Elementary School, a minimally staffed primary school in Baker, Louisiana, run under East Baton Rouge Parish, educates 105 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 453 students per school, that is 77% smaller than typical.

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

Demographically, White Hills Elementary School records that nearly all students (82%) are Black; the rest comes out to 11% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting White Hills Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 90% of students at White Hills Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, East Baton Rouge Parish runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, White Hills Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.4%, the actual is 22.7%, a residual of +3.3 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for East Baton Rouge Parish indicate median household earnings sit near $63,071, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. White Hills Elementary School is one of 132 public schools in East Baton Rouge Parish (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students).

Nearest neighbor: Baker Middle School, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), White Hills Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 25.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 6 years. Over the past 6-year window, the student count decreased 30%: 149 students in 2018 compared to 105 in 2024. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 99% to 82% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 in 2024.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.