Elementary · Louisiana
Tensas Elementary School
Free meals for allTensas Elementary School, a public elementary school in St. Joseph, Louisiana: grades pre-k–5, 154 students, 12.8 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Tensas Parish.
Size and class size
Compared with elementary schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 154
- Teachers (FTE)
- 12.0
- Students per teacher
- 12.8
- Grades
- Pre-K–5
- Elementary
Fewer students per teacher than 58% of elementary schools in Louisiana
Median 13.3 · 699 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 70% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Smaller than 96% of elementary schools in Louisiana
Median 429 · 700 schools compared
Smaller than 92% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades Pre-K–5
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Remote rural area
- Run by
- Tensas Parish
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Tensas Parish.
Location
- Address
- Frontage Road, St. Joseph, LA 71366
- Phone
- (318)766-3346
- County
- Tensas Parish
Nearby elementary schools
The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
A. W. Watson ElementaryFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 531 | 16.2 |
Jefferson County ElementaryFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 512 | 15.6 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
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NCES 220171001332