Enrollment
270
Elementary
DISTRICT 400 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RAPIDES PARISH·NCES 220129001038
Acadian Elementary
310 Richmond Drive, Alexandria, LA 71302 · (318) 487-1203 · Rapides Parish
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL270 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 52% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Louisiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
267 students
DISTRICT 80% · STATE 70%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 28 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 30 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 41 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 44 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 44 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 37 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (30) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (37).
Student demographics
14%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · STATE 65% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
34.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +10.0pp since 2022
Math
22.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +0.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2022, while math scores have held steady.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 34.0% | 22.0% |
| 2024-25 | 24.0% | 25.0% |
| 2023-24 | 29.0% | 24.0% |
| 2022-23 | 24.0% | 22.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
22.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
13.1%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 13% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Acadian Elementary
Acadian Elementary's state test result (22.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acadian Elementary this school | 270 | 98.9% | 22.7% |
| St. Helena Arts and Technology Academy Greensburg | 291 | 99.7% | 11.5% |
| Martin Park Elementary School Alexandria | 281 | 97.2% | 17.0% |
| Thomas Jefferson Elementary Monroe | 268 | 97.0% | 14.7% |
| Clara Hall Accelerated School Monroe | 260 | 96.5% | N/A |
| Madison James Foster Elementary School Monroe | 278 | 97.5% | 14.0% |
Matched among Louisiana elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Acadian Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Rapides Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.7% | #413 of 583 | #17 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.0% | #418 of 582 ▼ 43 | #17 of 24 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #367 of 587 ▲ 122 | #17 of 24 ▲ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.0pp | #133 of 540 | #8 of 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 270 | #576 of 714 | #22 of 25 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.9:1 | #164 of 655 | #6 of 24 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 14.1% | #594 of 655 | #21 of 24 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.9% | #7 of 705 | #1 of 25 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.7% | #306 of 436 | #6 of 15 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
270
+72 (+36%) vs 2020
-12% since 1990-91, when it was 306
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
was 10.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 270 | 22.6 | 11.9:1 | 99% (267) |
| 2023-24 | 298 | 24.2 | 12.3:1 | 97% (289) |
| 2022-23 | 316 | 22.9 | 13.8:1 | 98% (311) |
| 2020-21 | 198 | 19 | 10.4:1 | 77% (153) |
| 2017-18 | 299 | 19 | 15.7:1 | 99% (296) |
| 2015-16 | 281 | 24 | 11.7:1 | 98% (274) |
| 2010-11 | 306 | 25 | 12.2:1 | 98% (300) |
| 2000-01 | 251 | 16 | 15.7:1 | 67% (168) |
| 1990-91 | 306 | 24 | 12.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Acadian Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (299 to 270); teachers up 19% (19 to 22.6).
About Acadian Elementary
Acadian Elementary is a small elementary school in Alexandria, Louisiana, administered by Rapides Parish. Students in pre-K through 5 attend the school, which enrolls 270 students. For comparison, elementary schools in Louisiana average about 453 students.
Rapides Parish enrolls 21,340 students in 43 schools, including Acadian Elementary.
Acadian Elementary enrolls a student body that is 93% Black. Other reported shares: 3% multiracial and 2% Hispanic. That compares with about 31% Black among all Rapides Parish residents. Acadian Elementary has a diversity index of 14%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Acadian Elementary employs 22.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 11.9:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Louisiana is 14.0:1, higher than at this school. Acadian Elementary's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 99%. The 77% average for public schools in Rapides Parish is 22 points lower.
Acadian Elementary is graded B- by allk12, scoring above 52% of Louisiana public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Acadian Elementary's average proficiency rate on state tests of 22.7% is 9.6 points above the 13.1% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Acadian Elementary is located in Rapides Parish, where median household income is about $54,967, about 23% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. Acadian Elementary is one of 51 public schools in Rapides Parish, which together enroll about 21,481 students.
The shortest distance from Acadian Elementary to another public school is about 1.2 miles, to Rapides Training Academy. The five-mile area around Acadian Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 45.1%, higher than Acadian Elementary's 22.7%.
The school's locale code, City: Small, means it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The number of students grew from 198 to 270 over 4 years. Students per teacher rose from 10.4 in 2020-21 to 11.9 in 2024-25.
Posts about school safety, transportation, and start times are welcome on this page. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Rapides Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
127,527
Census ACS
Median income
$54,967
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
51
21,481 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Rapides Parish
- Alexandria Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,475 students
- Pineville High SchoolHigh · 1,271 students
- Peabody Magnet High SchoolHigh · 1,071 students
- J.I. Barron Sr. Elementary SchoolElementary · 924 students
- Buckeye High SchoolHigh · 915 students
- Tioga High SchoolHigh · 881 students
Other schools in Alexandria
- Alexandria Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,475 students
- Peabody Magnet High SchoolHigh · 1,071 students
- Scott M. Brame Middle SchoolMiddle · 709 students
- Cherokee Elementary SchoolElementary · 576 students
- J.B. Nachman Elementary SchoolElementary · 546 students
- Mabel Brasher MontessoriElementary · 508 students
Other Acadian Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Acadian Elementary. Acadian Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Acadian Elementary SchoolHouma, LA · 654 students
Nearby schools
- Rapides Training Academy1.2 mi · 69
- Arthur F. Smith Middle Magnet School1.3 mi · 362
- Peabody Magnet High School1.5 mi · 1,071
- Peabody Montessori Elementary School1.7 mi · 466
- Phoenix Magnet Elementary School1.9 mi · 314
- Alma Redwine Elementary2.2 mi · 225
Frequently asked questions
About Acadian ElementaryHow many students attend Acadian Elementary?
Acadian Elementary enrolls approximately 270 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Acadian Elementary serve?
Acadian Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Acadian Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Acadian Elementary is approximately 11.9:1 (23 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Acadian Elementary?
Student demographics at Acadian Elementary are roughly 1% White, 2% Hispanic, 93% Black, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Acadian Elementary?
Acadian Elementary is overseen by Rapides Parish in Rapides Parish.
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