AmiKiDs Caddo

AmiKiDs Caddo, a very small 6-8 campus in Shreveport, Louisiana, part of Caddo Parish, enrolls 60 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 440 students each, so AmiKiDs Caddo sits 86% leaner than that benchmark.

AmiKiDs Caddo is one of 57 schools operated by Caddo Parish, a district that enrolls 32,649 students overall.

On demographics, AmiKiDs Caddo logs that 87% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school records 7% Hispanic, 3% White, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.

On the resource side, On paper, AmiKiDs Caddo has 0 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 6000.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 41.0:1 average. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Caddo Parish runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the 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 roughly 18% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Caddo Parish's 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,851 students), AmiKiDs Caddo is one campus in the mix.

Judson Fundamental Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around AmiKiDs Caddo.

The campus sits in a high-density setting. AmiKiDs Caddo operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. AmiKiDs Caddo's enrollment has declined 45% since 2018, when it stood at 109 (now 60). The Black share of enrollment declined from 95% to 87% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 9.9:1 in 2018 to 6000.0:1 in 2025.

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