Cedarcrest-Southmoor Elementary School

Cedarcrest-Southmoor Elementary School operates as a reasonably sized primary school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, overseen by East Baton Rouge Parish. Current enrollment sits at 644 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Cedarcrest-Southmoor Elementary School sits 42% larger than that benchmark.

East Baton Rouge Parish comprises 83 schools with combined enrollment of 40,083 students; Cedarcrest-Southmoor Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Cedarcrest-Southmoor Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is Black (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 38% Hispanic, 6% White. By comparison, East Baton Rouge Parish as a whole is about 44% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Roughly 75% of students at Cedarcrest-Southmoor Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Cedarcrest-Southmoor Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 30.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 20.0%.

Around the school, census data for East Baton Rouge Parish shows median household earnings sit near $63,071, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. In all, East Baton Rouge Parish runs 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students), of which Cedarcrest-Southmoor Elementary School is one.

Broadmoor Senior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cedarcrest-Southmoor Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 30.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Cedarcrest-Southmoor Elementary School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 643 (now 644). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 28% to 38%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 today.

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