Chesbrough Elementary School

Chesbrough Elementary School operates as a moderately sized elementary-level community in Kentwood, Louisiana, run under Tangipahoa Parish. Current enrollment sits at 424 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Chesbrough Elementary School is one of 32 schools operated by Tangipahoa Parish, a district that enrolls 19,077 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Chesbrough Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 42% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Tangipahoa Parish as a whole is about 61% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Chesbrough Elementary School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Tangipahoa Parish (around 73%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Chesbrough Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.1%, the actual is 26.0%, a residual of +0.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Tangipahoa Parish indicate the typical household earns roughly $56,760 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Chesbrough Elementary School is one of 33 public schools in Tangipahoa Parish (combined enrollment of about 19,077 students).

Nearest neighbor: Jewel M. Sumner High School, around 1.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Chesbrough Elementary School at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 19.7%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Chesbrough Elementary School has expanded 12%, going from 378 students in 2018 to 424 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 53% to 48%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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