Blanchard Elementary School

Blanchard Elementary School is an elementary campus of small scale in Shreveport, Louisiana, part of Caddo Parish, serveing 363 students in grades pre-K through 3.

Across the 57 schools in Caddo Parish (32,649 students total), Blanchard Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Blanchard Elementary School shows that White students make up the majority at 67%; the rest looks like 17% Black, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. The state averages about 14.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 56% of students at Blanchard Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Caddo Parish runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Blanchard Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.0%, the actual is 31.3%, a residual of -12.7 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Caddo Parish indicate median household earnings sit near $50,705, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 18%. Blanchard Elementary School is one of 61 public schools in Caddo Parish (combined enrollment of about 33,851 students).

The closest other public school is Donnie Bickham Middle School, roughly 2.1 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Blanchard Elementary School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 15.4%.

Blanchard Elementary School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Blanchard Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 20% since 2018, when it stood at 452 (now 363). Over the same period, the White share fell from 78% to 67%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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