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Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5

Welsh Elementary School, Welsh, LA

CEP schoolWelsh Elementary School is a public elementary school in Welsh, part of Jefferson Davis Parish. It enrolled 499 students in 2024-25, with 17.2 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
499
Teachers (FTE)
29.0
Students per teacher
17.2
Grades
PK to 5

This school's ratio is 2.6 higher than the district figure of 14.6. The Louisiana average across schools is 13.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school17.2
District14.6
Louisiana13.9
United States15.3

School details

Address
222 East Bourgeois Street, Welsh, LA 70591
Phone
(337)734-2351
District
Jefferson Davis Parish
County
Jefferson Davis Parish
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Rural: Distant
NCES school ID
220081000573
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
233
Reduced-price lunch
19
Free or reduced-price lunch
25250.5% of enrollment.
Direct certification
217Students 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 Jefferson Davis 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.