Winbourne Elementary School

Set in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Winbourne Elementary School is a tight-knit K-5 school, run under East Baton Rouge Parish. It educates 274 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Winbourne Elementary School sits 40% leaner than that benchmark.

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

On demographics, Winbourne Elementary School shows that 97% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Winbourne Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against East Baton Rouge Parish (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Winbourne Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 15.5%; this one delivers 9.0%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (East Baton Rouge Parish) records that 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 Winbourne Elementary School is one.

Istrouma High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Winbourne Elementary School at 4th of 4; the average score across the group is 31.8%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Winbourne Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 34% since 2018, when it stood at 413 (now 274). Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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