Covington Elementary School

Set in Covington, Louisiana, Covington Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary school, run under St. Tammany Parish. It caters to 551 students across grades pre-K through 3. Enrollment runs roughly 22% bigger than the state mean of about 453.

St. Tammany Parish comprises 55 schools with combined enrollment of 35,956 students; Covington Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Covington Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is White (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 31% Black, 21% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, St. Tammany Parish as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Covington Elementary School shows 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.0:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 57% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against St. Tammany Parish (around 44%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Covington Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.4%, the actual is 39.0%, a residual of -4.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for St. Tammany Parish put the typical household earns roughly $81,202 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, St. Tammany Parish runs 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,212 students), of which Covington Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: William Pitcher Junior High School, around 0.2 miles off. 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), Covington Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 40.8%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Covington Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 579 (now 551). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 60% to 39%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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