Enrollment
282
Elementary
DISTRICT 483 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CADDO PARISH·NCES 220030000153
Cherokee Park Elementary School
2010 East Algonquin Trail, Shreveport, LA 71107 · (318) 221-6782 · Caddo Parish
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL282 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 15% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-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
10.5:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
268 students
DISTRICT 71% · 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 | 18 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 48 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 24% |
| Grade 2 | 38 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 45 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 34 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 30 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (48) is 60% larger than its 5th grade class (30).
Student demographics
6%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
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LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
17.0%
LA avg 41.8% . -3.0pp since 2022
Math
20.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +7.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 17 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 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 3 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 7 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 17.0% | 20.0% |
| 2024-25 | 12.0% | 18.0% |
| 2023-24 | 17.0% | 15.0% |
| 2022-23 | 20.0% | 13.0% |
% 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
13.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
15.9%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 13% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 16% 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 Cherokee Park Elementary School
Cherokee Park Elementary School's state test result (13.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cherokee Park Elementary School this school | 282 | 95.0% | 13.0% |
| Winbourne Elementary School Baton Rouge | 274 | 96.0% | 10.2% |
| Progress Elementary School Baton Rouge | 300 | 96.3% | 18.5% |
| Wright Elementary School Tallulah | 264 | 94.3% | 9.0% |
| Park Elementary School Baton Rouge | 300 | 93.3% | 19.7% |
| Clara Hall Accelerated School Monroe | 260 | 96.5% | N/A |
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 Cherokee Park Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Caddo Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 13.0% | #543 of 583 | #26 of 35 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.0% | #433 of 582 ▲ 23 | #17 of 35 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 17.0% | #556 of 587 ▲ 14 | #25 of 35 ▲ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.0pp | #204 of 540 | #8 of 29 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 282 | #558 of 714 | #29 of 37 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.5:1 | #64 of 655 | #1 of 34 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 5.6% | #638 of 655 | #34 of 34 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.0% | #52 of 705 | #2 of 36 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.2% | #171 of 436 | #14 of 25 |
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
282
+4 (+1%) vs 2020
-26% since 1990-91, when it was 381
Student : Teacher
10.5:1
was 17.4:1
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 | 282 | 26.8 | 10.5:1 | 95% (268) |
| 2023-24 | 329 | 23 | 14.3:1 | 90% (296) |
| 2022-23 | 282 | 19.3 | 14.6:1 | 90% (255) |
| 2020-21 | 278 | 16 | 17.4:1 | 79% (220) |
| 2017-18 | 349 | 19.2 | 18.2:1 | 81% (284) |
| 2015-16 | 322 | N/A | N/A | 98% (317) |
| 2010-11 | 455 | 24 | 19.0:1 | 97% (443) |
| 2000-01 | 454 | 24 | 18.9:1 | 93% (422) |
| 1990-91 | 381 | 23 | 16.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cherokee Park Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (349 to 282); teachers up 40% (19.2 to 26.8).
About Cherokee Park Elementary School
Cherokee Park Elementary School is the name of a small elementary school in Shreveport, Louisiana. In all, 282 students attend the school in pre-K through 5. That puts enrollment 38% below the 453-student average for elementary schools in Louisiana.
Caddo Parish has 57 schools; together they serve 32,649 students.
The share of students at Cherokee Park Elementary School who are Black is 97%. By comparison, Caddo Parish residents are about 49% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 6, compared with 70 nationally.
Based on 26.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, Cherokee Park Elementary School has a ratio of 10.5:1. Across elementary schools in Louisiana, the average ratio is 14.0:1. Income data for the school show 95% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The 68% average for public schools in Caddo Parish is 27 points lower.
Among Louisiana public elementary schools, Cherokee Park Elementary School outscored 15%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 13.0%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 15.9%.
For Caddo Parish, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $50,705 a year, roughly 26% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 18% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Cherokee Park Elementary School, Caddo Parish has 61 public schools.
Bossier Elementary School is about 2.0 miles from Cherokee Park Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 21.5%, higher than Cherokee Park Elementary School's 13.0%.
The school's federal locale classification is City: Mid-size.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 282, starting from 278. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 17.4:1 to 10.5:1.
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Caddo Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
230,004
Census ACS
Median income
$50,705
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
18%
Below federal line
Schools in county
61
33,851 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Caddo Parish
- Captain Shreve High SchoolHigh · 1,658 students
- C.E. Byrd High SchoolHigh · 1,517 students
- Walnut Hill Elementary/Middle SchoolElementary · 1,480 students
- Turner Elementary Middle SchoolElementary · 1,437 students
- Magnolia School of ExcellenceCombined · 1,430 students
- Huntington High SchoolHigh · 1,345 students
Other schools in Shreveport
- Captain Shreve High SchoolHigh · 1,658 students
- C.E. Byrd High SchoolHigh · 1,517 students
- Walnut Hill Elementary/Middle SchoolElementary · 1,480 students
- Turner Elementary Middle SchoolElementary · 1,437 students
- Magnolia School of ExcellenceCombined · 1,430 students
- Huntington High SchoolHigh · 1,345 students
Nearby schools
- Bossier Elementary School2.0 mi · 239
- Academic Recovery Ombudsman2.2 mi · 168
- Apollo Elementary School2.3 mi · 756
- Bossier High School2.4 mi · 654
- North Highlands Elementary School2.5 mi · 355
- Plantation Park Elementary School2.5 mi · 518
Frequently asked questions
About Cherokee Park Elementary SchoolHow large is Cherokee Park Elementary School?
Cherokee Park Elementary School enrolls approximately 282 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Cherokee Park Elementary School serve?
Cherokee Park Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Cherokee Park Elementary School?
Approximately 10.5:1 students per teacher at Cherokee Park Elementary School.
How diverse is Cherokee Park Elementary School?
Cherokee Park Elementary School reports a student body of 1% White, 1% Hispanic, 97% Black, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Cherokee Park Elementary School?
Cherokee Park Elementary School is overseen by Caddo Parish in Caddo Parish.
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