LOUIS L'AMOUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LOUIS L'AMOUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a tight-knit K-5 school in Jamestown, North Dakota, run under JAMESTOWN 1. The school instructs 113 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 47% smaller than the state mean of about 212.

JAMESTOWN 1 runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,032 students. LOUIS L'AMOUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, LOUIS L'AMOUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school lists 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 7.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting LOUIS L'AMOUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Stutsman County runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Stutsman County put median household earnings sit near $61,856, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Stutsman County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,531 students), LOUIS L'AMOUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: JAMESTOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 1.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around LOUIS L'AMOUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. LOUIS L'AMOUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 6% since 2018, when it stood at 120 (now 113). Class-load math has fell: from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 7.7:1 in 2025.

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