Cypress Cove Elementary School

Set in Sulphur, Louisiana, Cypress Cove Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary campus, overseen by Calcasieu Parish. It teaches 399 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 56 schools in Calcasieu Parish (27,851 students total), Cypress Cove Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Cypress Cove Elementary School shows that nearly all students (81%) are White. The remainder breaks down as 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

On the resource side, Cypress Cove Elementary School lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Cypress Cove Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 60% of students at Cypress Cove Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Cypress Cove Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.0%, the actual is 47.0%, a residual of +6.0 points.

Across the wider county, Calcasieu Parish reports that median household income runs about $67,564, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Calcasieu Parish's 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,278 students), Cypress Cove Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

W. T. Henning Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cypress Cove Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Cypress Cove Elementary School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 40.7%.

Cypress Cove Elementary School operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 25%: 532 students in 2018 compared to 399 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 6% to 10%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 in 2025.

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