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Shady Grove Elementary School

Public Grades PK, KG-5
612th
SchoolDigger Rank ?
of 666 Louisiana Elementary Schools
Better than 8% of Louisiana elementary schools
Summary

Shady Grove Elementary School is a public elementary school in Monroe, Louisiana, serving 229 students in grades PK-5. The school is part of the Ouachita Parish School District, which is ranked 40 out of 118 districts in the state and has a 3-star rating.

Shady Grove Elementary School faces significant academic challenges, consistently performing well below the Ouachita Parish and Louisiana state averages in both Mathematics and English Language Arts (ELA) proficiency. For example, in the 2024-2025 school year, the school's Mathematics proficiency rate was 39%, compared to 63% for Ouachita Parish and 60% for the state. Similarly, the school's ELA proficiency rate was 42%, compared to 73% for Ouachita Parish and 70% for the state. Additionally, Shady Grove has a high chronic absenteeism rate, ranging from 19.0% to 24.6% over the past few years, which is significantly higher than the state average.

Interestingly, the nearby schools within the Ouachita Parish School District, such as Swayze Elementary and Robinson Elementary, generally perform better than Shady Grove Elementary School in both academic proficiency and student subgroup performance. However, the nearby schools in the City of Monroe School District, which has a lower district ranking, perform similarly or slightly better than Shady Grove Elementary School. The school's struggles appear to be closely tied to the high concentration of economically disadvantaged students it serves, with 79.91% to 90.16% of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch over the past few years.

195
Students ?
11.3
Student/teacher ratio ?
$20,225
Per pupil spending ?
94.4%
Free/discounted lunch ?
 2204 Ticheli Road
       Monroe, LA  71202

(318) 323-9941

District: Ouachita Parish


Students who attend Shady Grove Elementary School usually attend:

Middle:    Richwood Junior High School
High:    Richwood High School
Racial breakdown:

African American:
96.4%
Two or more races:
2.1%
Hispanic:
1.5%
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At a glance
Ranking trend: Holding steady — 6th percentile in 2015 → 8th in 2025
Strengths
Small classes — about 11 students per teacher
Worth a look
!Test scores below the Louisiana average (40% vs 65% meeting standards)
!In the lower quartile statewide (8th percentile)
!English Language Arts scores 28 pts below the Louisiana average
Students meeting standards (2024-2025) ?
This school40%
District avg68%
Louisiana avg65%
612th of 666
Louisiana public elementary schools ?
Bottom 8%▲ up 2 pts since 2015
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SchoolDigger rating ?
19th of 19Elementary Schools in the Ouachita Parish
40th of 118Ouachita Parish among Louisiana districts
Statewide rank percentile over time (100 = the top-ranked school in the state; click a legend item to add a student group)
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All Students

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankLouisiana percentileRating
202513.5612 of 6668.1%☆☆☆☆☆
20243.4666 of 6751.3%☆☆☆☆☆
202310.5683 of 7306.4%☆☆☆☆☆
202212.3665 of 7278.5%☆☆☆☆☆
20218.7685 of 7296.0%☆☆☆☆☆
20199.8688 of 7315.9%☆☆☆☆☆
201813.7651 of 72810.6%★☆☆☆☆
201711.5684 of 7397.4%☆☆☆☆☆
201612.8686 of 7427.5%☆☆☆☆☆
201510.2746 of 7925.8%☆☆☆☆☆
20148.4745 of 7774.1%☆☆☆☆☆
20138.8740 of 7724.1%☆☆☆☆☆
201222.0647 of 76415.3%★☆☆☆☆
201126.1607 of 76620.8%★☆☆☆☆
201027.3577 of 73621.6%★☆☆☆☆
200940.9486 of 73834.1%★★☆☆☆
200836.5500 of 74332.7%★★☆☆☆
200748.3409 of 72543.6%★★☆☆☆

African American

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankLouisiana percentileRating
202519.9446 of 50111.0%★☆☆☆☆
202319.1503 of 57011.8%★☆☆☆☆
202221.7474 of 56215.7%★☆☆☆☆
202118.1504 of 56410.6%★☆☆☆☆
201918.1506 of 5599.5%☆☆☆☆☆
201821.1492 of 54710.1%★☆☆☆☆

Female

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankLouisiana percentileRating
202513.1591 of 6336.6%☆☆☆☆☆
20243.8630 of 6350.8%☆☆☆☆☆
202320.3601 of 70514.8%★☆☆☆☆
202216.4607 of 70113.4%★☆☆☆☆
202111.4655 of 7057.1%☆☆☆☆☆
201914.2633 of 6847.5%☆☆☆☆☆

Low Socio Economic Status

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankLouisiana percentileRating
202515.7604 of 6618.6%☆☆☆☆☆
202314.5657 of 7239.1%☆☆☆☆☆
202214.0655 of 7249.5%☆☆☆☆☆
20219.6679 of 7195.6%☆☆☆☆☆
201912.2657 of 6975.7%☆☆☆☆☆
201812.5651 of 6824.5%☆☆☆☆☆

Male

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankLouisiana percentileRating
202516.6575 of 64110.3%★☆☆☆☆
20241.4650 of 6510.2%☆☆☆☆☆
20239.4680 of 7134.6%☆☆☆☆☆
202211.8654 of 7128.1%☆☆☆☆☆
20218.8666 of 7045.4%☆☆☆☆☆
20196.8681 of 6962.2%☆☆☆☆☆

Special Education

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankLouisiana percentileRating
201916.2299 of 33310.2%★☆☆☆☆
How student groups rank statewide ? (each group's percentile vs the same group at other schools — higher is better; the +/- beside each compares the group with this school's overall percentile)
African American (2025)11th percentile+3 vs school
Male (2025)10th percentile~ school
Special Education (2019)10th percentile+4 vs school
Low Socio Economic Status (2025)9th percentile~ school
Female (2025)7th percentile~ school
By subject vs Louisiana (2024-2025) ?
English Language Arts42%-28 vs state
Mathematics39%-21 vs state

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Students who attend Shady Grove Elementary School usually go on to attend:

Middle : Richwood Junior High School
High : Richwood High School

In the 2024-25 school year, 195 students attended Shady Grove Elementary School.

Shady Grove Elementary School ranks in the bottom 8.1% of Louisiana elementary schools.

Students at Shady Grove Elementary School are 96% African American, 2% Two or more races, 2% Hispanic.


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