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Enrollment
399
Elementary
DISTRICT 395 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CALCASIEU PARISH·NCES 220033000258
Cypress Cove Elementary School
700 Currie Drive, Sulphur, LA 70665 · (337) 217-4970 · Calcasieu Parish
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL399 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 73% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Louisiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
240 students
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 70%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 22 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 57 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 57 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 72 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 64 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 11% smaller than its 5th grade class (64).
Student demographics
33%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 65% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
49.0%
LA avg 41.8% . -7.0pp since 2022
Math
44.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +0.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2022, while math scores have held steady.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 49.0% | 44.0% |
| 2024-25 | 54.0% | 41.0% |
| 2023-24 | 56.0% | 46.0% |
| 2022-23 | 56.0% | 44.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
47.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.0%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Louisiana's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Cypress Cove Elementary School
Cypress Cove Elementary School's state test result (47.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cypress Cove Elementary School this school | 399 | 60.2% | 47.0% |
| Delcambre Elementary School Delcambre | 472 | 59.7% | 63.7% |
| Branch Elementary School Branch | 374 | 58.8% | 35.0% |
| Lockport Lower Elementary School Lockport | 429 | 55.9% | N/A |
| Sixth Ward Elementary School Pearl River | 335 | 60.0% | 47.5% |
| Anacoco Elementary School Anacoco | 457 | 61.9% | 54.0% |
Matched among Louisiana elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Cypress Cove Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Calcasieu Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #132 of 583 | #9 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #179 of 582 ▲ 18 | #13 of 31 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #202 of 587 ▼ 56 | #16 of 31 ▼ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.5pp | #162 of 540 | #11 of 29 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 399 | #402 of 714 | #15 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #106 of 655 | #7 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 33.1% | #485 of 655 | #24 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 60.2% | #538 of 705 | #22 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.0% | #115 of 436 | #11 of 29 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
399
-64 (-14%) vs 2020
+28% since 1990-91, when it was 311
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 19.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 399 | 35.5 | 11.2:1 | 60% (240) |
| 2023-24 | 465 | 36.9 | 12.6:1 | 64% (299) |
| 2022-23 | 512 | 30.8 | 16.6:1 | 61% (312) |
| 2020-21 | 463 | 24 | 19.3:1 | 86% (399) |
| 2017-18 | 532 | 32.3 | 16.5:1 | 41% (220) |
| 2015-16 | 549 | 40 | 13.7:1 | 43% (236) |
| 2010-11 | 246 | 21 | 11.7:1 | 82% (201) |
| 2000-01 | 312 | 24 | 13.0:1 | 70% (219) |
| 1990-91 | 311 | 22 | 14.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cypress Cove Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 25% (532 to 399); teachers up 10% (32.3 to 35.5).
About Cypress Cove Elementary School
Cypress Cove Elementary School is the name of a mid-sized elementary school in Sulphur, Louisiana. The school runs pre-K through 5 and enrolls 399 students.
Cypress Cove Elementary School is one school in Calcasieu Parish, a system of 56 schools with 27,851 students.
The share of White students at Cypress Cove Elementary School is 81%. Enrollment also includes 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 4% Black. The school's White share is 15 points above the 66% share among Calcasieu Parish residents. A diversity index of 33% means there is a 33% chance two randomly chosen students at Cypress Cove Elementary School are from different groups.
Based on 35.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, Cypress Cove Elementary School has a ratio of 11.2:1. The average for elementary schools in Louisiana, 14.0:1, is higher. Income data for the school show 60% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 59% average for public schools in Calcasieu Parish.
Cypress Cove Elementary School earns a B+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 73% of Louisiana public elementary schools.
Cypress Cove Elementary School's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (47.0%) and its predicted rate (41.0%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Louisiana schools.
The county, Calcasieu Parish, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $67,564 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 25%, and about 13% of people live in poverty. Counting Cypress Cove Elementary School, Calcasieu Parish has 61 public schools.
Cypress Cove Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is W. T. Henning Elementary School, about 1.7 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 47.0% is above the 41.8% average for nearby schools.
The school's federal locale classification is Rural: Fringe.
The school shrank from 463 students in 2020-21 to 399 in 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio falling from 19.3:1 to 11.2:1.
This page is set up for the Cypress Cove Elementary School community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Calcasieu Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
207,088
Census ACS
Median income
$67,564
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
61
30,278 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Calcasieu Parish
- Sulphur High SchoolHigh · 1,911 students
- Alfred M. Barbe High SchoolHigh · 1,908 students
- Sam Houston High SchoolHigh · 1,141 students
- S. J. Welsh Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,011 students
- Iowa High SchoolHigh · 1,007 students
- Moss Bluff Elementary SchoolElementary · 969 students
Other schools in Sulphur
- Sulphur High SchoolHigh · 1,911 students
- W. W. Lewis Middle SchoolMiddle · 757 students
- Maplewood ElementaryElementary · 640 students
- E. K. Key Elementary SchoolElementary · 546 students
- Frasch Elementary SchoolElementary · 522 students
- W. T. Henning Elementary SchoolElementary · 369 students
Other Cypress Cove Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Cypress Cove Elementary. Cypress Cove Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Cypress Cove Elementary SchoolSlidell, LA · 593 students
Nearby schools
- W. T. Henning Elementary School1.7 mi · 369
- Richard W. Vincent Elementary School2.6 mi · 283
- Frasch Elementary School2.6 mi · 522
- Sulphur High School2.7 mi · 1,911
- W. W. Lewis Middle School2.9 mi · 757
- E. K. Key Elementary School3.3 mi · 546
Frequently asked questions
About Cypress Cove Elementary SchoolHow large is Cypress Cove Elementary School?
Cypress Cove Elementary School enrolls approximately 399 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Cypress Cove Elementary School serve?
Cypress Cove Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Cypress Cove Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Cypress Cove Elementary School is approximately 11.2:1 (36 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Cypress Cove Elementary School?
At Cypress Cove Elementary School, the student body is approximately 81% White, 10% Hispanic, 4% Black, 5% Two or more.
Is Cypress Cove Elementary School public or private?
Cypress Cove Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Calcasieu Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.