Brentwood Elementary School

Brentwood Elementary School is an elementary campus of small scale in Lake Charles, Louisiana, operated by Calcasieu Parish, hosting 272 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Brentwood Elementary School sits 40% below that benchmark.

Across the 56 schools in Calcasieu Parish (27,851 students total), Brentwood Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Brentwood Elementary School logs that nearly all students (93%) are Black. Other groups include 3% multiracial, 2% White, 2% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 23% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Brentwood Elementary School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Brentwood Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Calcasieu Parish (around 59%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Brentwood Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 17.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.0%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Calcasieu Parish) shows that the typical household earns roughly $67,564 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Calcasieu Parish runs 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,278 students), of which Brentwood Elementary School is one.

Henry Heights Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Brentwood Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Brentwood Elementary School at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 31.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Brentwood Elementary School has ticked down 5%, going from 287 students in 2018 to 272 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

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