Enrollment
272
Elementary
DISTRICT 395 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CALCASIEU PARISH·NCES 220033000219
Brentwood Elementary School
3825 Brentwood Avenue, Lake Charles, LA 70607 · (337) 217-4610 · Calcasieu Parish
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL272 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 36% 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.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+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
10.4:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
253 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 | 22 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 51 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 36 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 43 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 40 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 38 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is 34% larger than its 5th grade class (38).
Student demographics
14%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
35.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +0.0pp since 2022
Math
19.0%
LA avg 34.2% . -3.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 35 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 have held steady since 2022, while math scores are down about 3 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 35.0% | 19.0% |
| 2024-25 | 35.0% | 12.0% |
| 2023-24 | 37.0% | 16.0% |
| 2022-23 | 35.0% | 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
20.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
17.3%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 17% 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 Brentwood Elementary School
Brentwood Elementary School's state test result (20.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brentwood Elementary School this school | 272 | 93.0% | 20.7% |
| Wright Elementary School Tallulah | 264 | 94.3% | 9.0% |
| Dr. Raphael A. Baranco Elementary School Lafayette | 247 | 93.1% | 14.5% |
| Cherokee Park Elementary School Shreveport | 282 | 95.0% | 13.0% |
| Park Elementary School Baton Rouge | 300 | 93.3% | 19.7% |
| Rosenwald Elementary School New Roads | 303 | 91.4% | 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 Brentwood Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Calcasieu Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.7% | #437 of 583 | #24 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.0% | #450 of 582 ▲ 80 | #24 of 31 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #343 of 587 ▲ 7 | #21 of 31 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.5pp | #208 of 540 | #14 of 29 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 272 | #572 of 714 | #27 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.4:1 | #56 of 655 | #4 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 14.0% | #596 of 655 | #29 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.0% | #82 of 705 | #2 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.2% | #366 of 436 | #27 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
272
+33 (+14%) vs 2020
-31% since 1990-91, when it was 392
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
was 12.6:1
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 | 272 | 26.2 | 10.4:1 | 93% (253) |
| 2023-24 | 272 | 21.3 | 12.8:1 | 88% (238) |
| 2022-23 | 274 | 18.1 | 15.1:1 | 89% (243) |
| 2020-21 | 239 | 19 | 12.6:1 | 94% (224) |
| 2017-18 | 287 | 20.2 | 14.2:1 | 75% (214) |
| 2015-16 | 335 | N/A | N/A | 76% (256) |
| 2010-11 | 479 | 34 | 14.1:1 | 94% (450) |
| 2000-01 | 388 | 26 | 14.9:1 | 81% (316) |
| 1990-91 | 392 | 25 | 15.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Brentwood Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (287 to 272); teachers up 30% (20.2 to 26.2).
About Brentwood Elementary School
Brentwood Elementary School is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 272 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Louisiana enroll about 453 students on average.
Calcasieu Parish is the district for Brentwood Elementary School. It has 56 schools and 27,851 students.
Black students are 93% of those enrolled at Brentwood Elementary School. Beyond that, enrollment is 3% multiracial, 2% White, and 2% Hispanic. In Calcasieu Parish overall, about 23% of residents are Black. A diversity index of 14% means there is a 14% chance two randomly chosen students at Brentwood Elementary School are from different groups.
Its staff includes 26.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 10.4 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in Louisiana, 14.0:1, is higher. Brentwood Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 93%. It compares with 59% for public schools in Calcasieu Parish.
Brentwood Elementary School earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 36% of Louisiana public elementary schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Brentwood Elementary School is +3.4 points: 20.7% actual, 17.3% predicted.
The county, Calcasieu Parish, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $67,564 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 25%, and about 13% of people live in poverty. Counting Brentwood Elementary School, Calcasieu Parish has 61 public schools.
Henry Heights Elementary School is about 0.4 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 31.4%; Brentwood Elementary School's is 20.7%, ranking 3rd of 7.
Brentwood Elementary School is coded as City: Small in federal locale data.
The school grew from 239 students in 2020-21 to 272 in 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio falling from 12.6:1 to 10.4:1.
This page is set up for the Brentwood Elementary School community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
Other Brentwood Elementary schools
12 other US public schools in 8 states are named Brentwood Elementary. Brentwood Elementary School is the 13th largest of the 13.
- Brentwood ElementaryBrentwood, CA · 811 students
- Brentwood ElementaryVictorville, CA · 790 students
- Brentwood Elementary SchoolAUSTIN, TX · 671 students
- BRENTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSARASOTA, FL · 590 students
- Brentwood ElementaryFayetteville, NC · 494 students
Nearby schools
- Henry Heights Elementary School0.4 mi · 315
- LaGrange High School0.7 mi · 881
- Southwest Louisiana Charter Academy0.9 mi · 852
- F. K. White Middle School1.0 mi · 614
- Oak Park Middle School1.3 mi · 388
- Fairview Elementary School1.3 mi · 518
Frequently asked questions
About Brentwood Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Brentwood Elementary School?
Brentwood Elementary School enrolls approximately 272 students in grades PK-05.
Is Brentwood Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Brentwood Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Brentwood Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Brentwood Elementary School is approximately 10.4:1 (26 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Brentwood Elementary School?
Student demographics at Brentwood Elementary School are roughly 2% White, 2% Hispanic, 93% Black, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Brentwood Elementary School?
Brentwood Elementary School is overseen by Calcasieu Parish in Calcasieu Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.