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Elementary · Regular · Grades 4 to 5

Union Central Elementary School, Columbia, LA

CEP schoolUnion Central Elementary School is a public elementary school in Columbia, part of Caldwell Parish. It enrolled 215 students in 2024-25, with 10.8 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
215
Teachers (FTE)
20.0
Students per teacher
10.8
Grades
4 to 5

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 10.7. The Louisiana average across schools is 13.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school10.8
District10.7
Louisiana13.9
United States15.3

School details

Address
649 Highway 849, Columbia, LA 71418
Phone
(318)649-2569
District
Caldwell Parish
County
Caldwell Parish
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Rural: Distant
NCES school ID
220036000283
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
145
Reduced-price lunch
7
Free or reduced-price lunch
15270.7% of enrollment.
Direct certification
122Students 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 Caldwell 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.