Summary:
The three public schools in zip code 71295 (Winnsboro, LA) serve 1,481 students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, all part of the Franklin Parish school district, which ranks in the 16th percentile statewide with a 1-star rating and faces significant challenges in academic proficiency and attendance.
Crowville School stands out as the strongest academic performer, showing a clear upward trajectory from the 3rd percentile in 2023-2024 to the 24th percentile in 2025-2026, and is the only school in the area with proficiency rates above 40% in Math (46%) and ELA (46%). In contrast, Winnsboro Elementary School is the most challenged, ranking in the 1st percentile (686 out of 690 elementary schools) with critically low scores—only 6% of 5th graders proficient in Math—and an extremely high economic disadvantage rate of 93.44%. Franklin Parish High School presents a paradox: it boasts a strong graduation rate of 93.8% (above the state average of 85%) and a low dropout rate of 2.4%, yet its students show very low proficiency on end-of-course exams, such as only 23% in Algebra I compared to the state average of 65%.
Chronic absenteeism is a systemic crisis across the district, with an average rate of 31.4%—nearly 9 percentage points higher than the state average—and Franklin Parish High School has a particularly severe rate of 36.5%. All schools serve a high-poverty population, with an average free/reduced lunch rate of 79.6%, and the data strongly suggests that economic disadvantage correlates with academic outcomes, as Crowville School (with the lowest poverty rate at 74.08%) is the highest-performing, while Winnsboro Elementary (with the highest at 93.44%) struggles the most. Student-teacher ratios are favorable across all schools, ranging from 10.6:1 to 12.5:1, all below the state average.
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