The top reported proficiency rate is 53% in English language arts. The lowest is 38% in Social studies.
Original Research by School Decision on Folsom Elementary School
Folsom Elementary School serves students from prekindergarten through fifth grade in the small, entirely rural village of Folsom in northwest St. Tammany Parish. The school is a regular public school within the St. Tammany Parish school district. The enrollment is moderate for its grade band, drawing from a community that was originally a logging settlement and is now known for its plant nurseries, horse farms, and exotic animal farms. The village itself has grown steadily over recent decades but remains rural in character, with no downtown commercial corridor and a car-dependent layout along Louisiana Highway 25. Civic anchors are embedded in the community itself, with the Folsom Library branch and village hall located within the village.
The student body is predominantly white, with Black and Hispanic students each making up a modest share of the population. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Data on students with disabilities and English learners were not available in the reporting.
On state assessments, Folsom Elementary's performance presents a mixed picture. In English language arts, a majority of students scored at the proficient level or above, a clear strength. In math, just under half of students met that same threshold. In science and social studies, the share of students reaching proficiency was lower, each landing in the range where a family may want to look into this further with the school. Because these results come from a single year of available data, there is no trend to examine. The school's overall proficiency across tested subjects falls in a position the data cannot compare among its county's districts because the cohort of districts with comparable data was too small to make that placement.
The neighborhood comparison set is limited. Because St. Tammany Parish contains only two districts at the broader level used here, and the data needed to place this school's proficiency index among them was not available, no relative positioning against nearby districts could be produced. A graduation rate is not reported because the school does not serve high school grades.
Housing values in the Folsom area are above the state median and close to the national median, reflecting the desirability of rural parish living within commuting distance of Covington and the broader North Shore region. The national economic context in the reporting period shows mortgage rates around the levels typical of recent years and unemployment low by historical standards.
The district brief, which sought parent-relevant changes in St. Tammany Parish, returned no information. The search for recent district-level developments did not yield results, so this narrative cannot speak to any changes in boundaries, programming, or leadership for the district as a whole.
Folsom Elementary fits a family seeking a small-town, rural elementary school in a slow-growth village with a country texture. The school's English language arts results are a recognizable strength, while its math, science, and social studies scores give a parent a reasonable set of questions to ask when visiting. The absence of trend data and of placement among nearby schools means the academic picture is a single snapshot, not a trajectory or a comparison. The lack of data on discipline, course access, staffing, and attendance further limits what can be said about the school's day-to-day environment. For a family already oriented toward the Folsom community, this school is the local elementary option; for those deciding among areas, the academic profile is one that merits direct conversation with the school's leadership.
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