Cherokee Park Elementary School

Set in Shreveport, Louisiana, Cherokee Park Elementary School is a modestly sized elementary school, overseen by Caddo Parish. It enrolls 282 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 38% smaller than the state mean of about 453.

Within Caddo Parish, which oversees 57 schools and 32,649 students, Cherokee Park Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Cherokee Park Elementary School shows that nearly all students (97%) are Black. The wider county runs roughly 49% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.5:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Caddo Parish runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Cherokee Park Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 16.2%, the actual is 12.7%, a residual of -3.5 points.

Across the wider county, Caddo Parish reports that median household earnings sit near $50,705, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 18% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Cherokee Park Elementary School is one of 61 public schools in Caddo Parish (combined enrollment of about 33,851 students).

Bossier Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cherokee Park Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Cherokee Park Elementary School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 22.8%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 19%: 349 students in 2018 compared to 282 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Cherokee Park Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.