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A.C. Steere Elementary School
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2023-24 . % Mastery+What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 32. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Louisiana's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About A.C. Steere Elementary School
A.C. Steere Elementary School is a K-5 school of average-sized scale in Shreveport, Louisiana, part of Caddo Parish, serveing 443 students in grades pre-K through 5.
A.C. Steere Elementary School is one of 57 schools operated by Caddo Parish, a district that educates 32,649 students overall.
Looking at the student body, A.C. Steere Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 28% Black, 13% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 43% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, A.C. Steere Elementary School shows 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Roughly 47% of students at A.C. Steere Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Caddo Parish runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, A.C. Steere Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.3%.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Caddo Parish) shows that median household earnings sit near $50,705, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 18%. Across Caddo Parish's 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,851 students), A.C. Steere Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Louisiana Key Academy Caddo, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around A.C. Steere Elementary School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), A.C. Steere Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 36.7%.
The school occupies an urban site.
Over the past 7-year window. A.C. Steere Elementary School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 449 (now 443). The White share of enrollment declined from 71% to 51% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.
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