Public school / Primary
W.P. Foster Elementary School
Franklin, Louisiana
- NCES ID
- 220162001241
- District
- St. Mary Parish
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
W.P. Foster Elementary School is a public primary school in Franklin, Louisiana, run by St. Mary Parish. It enrols 250 students — the 72280th largest of 1,374 public schools in Louisiana.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
250
Teachers
13.0
Students per teacher
19.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
88.8%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within St. Mary Parish
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Morgan City High School732 students
- 2Hattie A. Watts Elementary School609 students
- 3Berwick High School514 students
- 4Centerville High School504 students
- 5Morgan City Junior High School488 students
- 6Berwick Elementary School484 students
- 7Patterson High School452 students
- 8Patterson Junior High School412 students
- Enrollment−48.9%
- Teachers−51.9%
- Students per teacher+9.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+32.5%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory