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Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 8

Emily C. Watkins Elementary, Laplace, LA

CEP schoolEmily C. Watkins Elementary is a public elementary school in Laplace, part of St. John the Baptist Parish. It enrolled 551 students in 2024-25, with 12.2 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
551
Teachers (FTE)
45.0
Students per teacher
12.2
Grades
PK to 8

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 12.7. The Louisiana average across schools is 13.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school12.2
District12.7
Louisiana13.9
United States15.3

School details

Address
938 LA Highway 628, Laplace, LA 70068
Phone
(985)652-1593
District
St. John the Baptist Parish
County
St. John the Baptist Parish
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Large
NCES school ID
220153002281
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
436
Reduced-price lunch
8
Free or reduced-price lunch
44480.6% of enrollment.
Direct certification
405Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other elementary schools in St. John the Baptist Parish

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.