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Claiborne Fundamental Elementary School is an elementary school of mid-sized scale in Shreveport, Louisiana, one of the schools within Caddo Parish, caters to 396 students in grades K through 5.
Within Caddo Parish, which oversees 57 schools and 32,649 students, Claiborne Fundamental Elementary School is one campus in the system.
On demographics, Claiborne Fundamental Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (88%). Other groups include 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.
In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Roughly 63% of students at Claiborne Fundamental Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Claiborne Fundamental Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Louisiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 39.3%; Claiborne Fundamental Elementary School posts 57.7%, +18.4 points above that line.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Caddo Parish indicate the typical household earns roughly $50,705 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 18%. In all, Caddo Parish runs 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,851 students), of which Claiborne Fundamental Elementary School is one.
Queensborough Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 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), Claiborne Fundamental Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 16.9%.
The school occupies a metropolitan site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Claiborne Fundamental Elementary School has shrank 12%, going from 452 students in 2018 to 396 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment declined from 93% to 88% over that span.
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