Champ Cooper Elementary School

Champ Cooper Elementary School, a big elementary campus in Ponchatoula, Louisiana, part of Tangipahoa Parish, teaches 1,163 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 157% bigger than the state mean of about 453.

Tangipahoa Parish runs 32 schools in total, collectively educating 19,077 students. Champ Cooper Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Champ Cooper Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 32% Black, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 61%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 76 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Champ Cooper Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Louisiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 37.1%; Champ Cooper Elementary School posts 23.0%, -14.1 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, Tangipahoa Parish reports that median household income runs about $56,760, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Tangipahoa Parish's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,077 students), Champ Cooper Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Hammond Eastside Magnet, around 4.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Champ Cooper Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 21.8%.

Champ Cooper Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Champ Cooper Elementary School has edged up 73%, going from 672 students in 2018 to 1,163 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 68% to 52% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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