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What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 11 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 11 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 1 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 7 points.
What this means: About 7% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 20% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
Caddo Heights Math/Science Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary school in Shreveport, Louisiana, one of the schools within Caddo Parish. The school caters to 604 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Caddo Heights Math/Science Elementary School sits 33% above that benchmark.
Within Caddo Parish, which oversees 57 schools and 32,649 students, Caddo Heights Math/Science Elementary School is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, Caddo Heights Math/Science Elementary School logs that 92% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Caddo Heights Math/Science Elementary School has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Caddo Parish's rate of about 68%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Caddo Heights Math/Science Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 20.3%; actual is 7.4%, a gap of -12.9 points.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Caddo Parish) records that the typical household earns roughly $50,705 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 18% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Caddo Parish runs 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,851 students), of which Caddo Heights Math/Science Elementary School is one.
The closest other public school is Werner Park Elementary School, roughly 0.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Caddo Heights Math/Science Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 38.9%.
The campus sits in a city-core setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 46%: 413 students in 2018 compared to 604 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 97% to 92% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.
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