DeQuincy Elementary School

DeQuincy Elementary School, an intimate elementary-level community in DeQuincy, Louisiana, one of the schools within Calcasieu Parish, instructs 222 students, covering grades 3 through 5. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so DeQuincy Elementary School sits 51% below that benchmark.

Within Calcasieu Parish, which oversees 56 schools and 27,851 students, DeQuincy Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DeQuincy Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). The remainder is composed of 10% Black, 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 66% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, DeQuincy Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.9%; this one delivers 39.7%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Calcasieu Parish put median household income runs about $67,564, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Calcasieu Parish runs 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,278 students), of which DeQuincy Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is DeQuincy Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, DeQuincy Elementary School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 32.0%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DeQuincy Elementary School has decreased 18%, going from 270 students in 2018 to 222 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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