Wright Elementary School

Wright Elementary School is one of the modestly sized elementary campuss in Tallulah, Louisiana, one of the schools within Madison Parish, with 264 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 5. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Wright Elementary School sits 42% below that benchmark.

Across the 5 schools in Madison Parish (1,133 students total), Wright Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Wright Elementary School logs that 95% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest is composed of 3% multiracial. By comparison, Madison Parish as a whole is about 62% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Madison Parish put median household income runs about $35,456, 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 22% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Madison Parish's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,133 students), Wright Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Tallulah Elementary School, around 1.5 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 9%: 243 students in 2018 compared to 264 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 6% to 1% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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