Enrollment
179
Elementary
DISTRICT 395 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CALCASIEU PARISH·NCES 220033000215
Barbe Elementary School
400 Penn Street, Lake Charles, LA 70601 · (337) 217-4600 · Calcasieu Parish
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL179 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 13% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-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
11.6:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
157 students
DISTRICT 63% · 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 | 15 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 34 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 27 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 30 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 29 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 24 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 20 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (34) is 70% larger than its 5th grade class (20).
Student demographics
31%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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
19.0%
LA avg 41.8% . -10.0pp since 2022
Math
19.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +2.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are down about 10 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 2 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 19.0% | 19.0% |
| 2024-25 | 25.0% | 12.0% |
| 2023-24 | 20.0% | 13.0% |
| 2022-23 | 29.0% | 17.0% |
% 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
16.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
21.1%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 21% 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 Barbe Elementary School
Barbe Elementary School's state test result (16.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barbe Elementary School this school | 179 | 87.7% | 16.2% |
| Belle Rose Primary School Belle Rose | 155 | 89.0% | 13.8% |
| Clinton Elementary School Clinton | 189 | 87.3% | 18.3% |
| T. H. Watkins Elementary School Lake Charles | 165 | 90.9% | 23.0% |
| Noble Minds New Orleans | 153 | 90.2% | N/A |
| Atkins Technology Elementary School Shreveport | 189 | 92.1% | 10.3% |
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 Barbe Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Calcasieu Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.2% | #500 of 583 | #29 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.0% | #449 of 582 ▲ 80 | #23 of 31 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 19.0% | #544 of 587 ▼ 73 | #29 of 31 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -4.0pp | #151 of 540 | #8 of 29 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 179 | #671 of 714 | #32 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.7% | #162 of 705 | #5 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -39.5% | #23 of 436 | #4 of 29 |
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
179
-48 (-21%) vs 2020
-45% since 1990-91, when it was 326
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 179 | 15.5 | 11.6:1 | 88% (157) |
| 2023-24 | 177 | 14.1 | 12.5:1 | 83% (147) |
| 2022-23 | 164 | 11.6 | 14.1:1 | 84% (138) |
| 2020-21 | 227 | 17 | 13.3:1 | 97% (220) |
| 2017-18 | 296 | 19.5 | 15.2:1 | 68% (200) |
| 2015-16 | 327 | N/A | N/A | 83% (270) |
| 2010-11 | 336 | 24 | 14.0:1 | 96% (322) |
| 2000-01 | 310 | 25 | 12.4:1 | 89% (277) |
| 1990-91 | 326 | 24 | 13.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Barbe Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 40% (296 to 179); teachers down 20% (19.5 to 15.5).
About Barbe Elementary School
This page covers Barbe Elementary School, a small elementary school in Lake Charles, Louisiana. It enrolled 179 students in pre-K through 5 for the 2024-25 school year. Enrollment is 60% lower than the average for elementary schools in Louisiana, which is about 453.
Calcasieu Parish serves 27,851 students across 56 schools.
Barbe Elementary School enrolls a student body that is 82% Black. After that, the student body is 9% White and 5% Hispanic. Census figures show Calcasieu Parish is about 23% Black. The chance that two students picked at random at Barbe Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 31%.
The count of teachers at Barbe Elementary School is 15.5 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 11.6:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Louisiana is 14.0:1, higher than at this school. Around 88% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. The 59% average for public schools in Calcasieu Parish is 29 points lower.
allk12 grades Barbe Elementary School a D. The grade compares the school only with Louisiana public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Barbe Elementary School, the prediction is 21.1% and the result is 16.2%.
According to the American Community Survey, in Calcasieu Parish, median household income is about $67,564, about 25% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 13%. A total of 61 public schools operate in Calcasieu Parish, serving about 30,278 students.
Nearest public school: T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School, about 0.8 miles away. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. On average proficiency, Barbe Elementary School is 8th of 8 nearby schools with test data.
For locale, NCES codes Barbe Elementary School as City: Small.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 227 to 179. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 11.6:1, from 13.3:1.
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Calcasieu Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
207,088
Census ACS
Median income
$67,564
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
61
30,278 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Calcasieu Parish
- Sulphur High SchoolHigh · 1,911 students
- Alfred M. Barbe High SchoolHigh · 1,908 students
- Sam Houston High SchoolHigh · 1,141 students
- S. J. Welsh Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,011 students
- Iowa High SchoolHigh · 1,007 students
- Moss Bluff Elementary SchoolElementary · 969 students
Other schools in Lake Charles
- Alfred M. Barbe High SchoolHigh · 1,908 students
- Sam Houston High SchoolHigh · 1,141 students
- S. J. Welsh Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,011 students
- Moss Bluff Elementary SchoolElementary · 969 students
- Lake Charles Charter AcademyElementary · 951 students
- LaGrange High SchoolHigh · 881 students
Nearby schools
- T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School0.8 mi · 300
- College Oaks Elementary School1.1 mi · 278
- LaGrange High School1.4 mi · 881
- Henry Heights Elementary School1.6 mi · 315
- Pearl Watson Elementary School1.7 mi · 219
- Prien Lake Elementary School1.9 mi · 639
Frequently asked questions
About Barbe Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Barbe Elementary School?
Barbe Elementary School enrolls approximately 179 students in grades PK-05.
Is Barbe Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Barbe Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Barbe Elementary School have?
Barbe Elementary School employs 16 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.6:1.
What is the student diversity at Barbe Elementary School?
Student demographics at Barbe Elementary School are roughly 9% White, 5% Hispanic, 82% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Barbe Elementary School public or private?
Barbe Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Calcasieu Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.