Crestworth Elementary School

Crestworth Elementary School is an elementary-level community of reasonably sized scale in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, run under East Baton Rouge Parish, instructing 427 students in grades pre-K through 8.

Crestworth Elementary School is one of 83 schools operated by East Baton Rouge Parish, a district that enrolls 40,083 students overall.

On demographics, Crestworth Elementary School reports that nearly all students (98%) are Black. By comparison, East Baton Rouge Parish as a whole is about 44% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, East Baton Rouge Parish runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Crestworth Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 16.5%, the actual is 14.7%, a residual of -1.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for East Baton Rouge Parish shows median household income runs about $63,071, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across East Baton Rouge Parish's 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students), Crestworth Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Progress Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Crestworth Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Crestworth Elementary School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 20.7%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 36%: 314 students in 2018 compared to 427 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.