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What tradition at D.F. Huddle Elementary should never be changed?
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Enrollment
412
Elementary
DISTRICT 400 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RAPIDES PARISH·NCES 220129001054
D.F. Huddle Elementary
505 Texas Avenue, Alexandria, LA 71301 · (318) 442-7921 · Rapides Parish
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL412 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 41% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-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
11.4:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
98%
404 students
DISTRICT 80% · STATE 70%
Community
5
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 | 40 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 53 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (51).
Student demographics
11%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
28.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +9.0pp since 2022
Math
17.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +6.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 6 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 28.0% | 17.0% |
| 2024-25 | 27.0% | 18.0% |
| 2023-24 | 24.0% | 18.0% |
| 2022-23 | 19.0% | 11.0% |
% 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
17.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
13.7%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 14% 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 D.F. Huddle Elementary
D.F. Huddle Elementary's state test result (17.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| D.F. Huddle Elementary this school | 412 | 98.1% | 17.7% |
| Carver Elementary School Monroe | 395 | 97.7% | 12.3% |
| Grolee Elementary School Opelousas | 404 | 96.3% | 15.7% |
| Roy Neal Shelling Sr. Elementary Monroe | 391 | 95.7% | 8.8% |
| L.S. Rugg Elementary School Alexandria | 356 | 98.0% | 13.7% |
| Southside Elementary School Lake Providence | 359 | 96.9% | 14.0% |
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 D.F. Huddle Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Rapides Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.7% | #482 of 583 | #20 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.0% | #483 of 582 ▼ 21 | #20 of 24 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.0% | #447 of 587 ▲ 3 | #21 of 24 ▼ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.5pp | #86 of 540 | #6 of 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 412 | #386 of 714 | #9 of 25 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #117 of 655 | #3 of 24 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 10.8% | #620 of 655 | #22 of 24 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.1% | #12 of 705 | #3 of 25 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +40.1% | #30 of 197 | #3 of 9 |
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
412
+169 (+70%) vs 2020
+8% since 1990-91, when it was 380
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
was 11.6:1
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 | 412 | 36 | 11.4:1 | 98% (404) |
| 2023-24 | 391 | 30.9 | 12.7:1 | 94% (369) |
| 2022-23 | 444 | 24.7 | 18.0:1 | 99% (440) |
| 2020-21 | 243 | 21 | 11.6:1 | 84% (203) |
| 2017-18 | 294 | 17 | 17.3:1 | 99% (290) |
| 2015-16 | 353 | 24 | 14.7:1 | 95% (335) |
| 2010-11 | 480 | 30 | 16.0:1 | 91% (435) |
| 2000-01 | 313 | 27 | 11.6:1 | 93% (292) |
| 1990-91 | 380 | 28 | 13.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for D.F. Huddle Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 40% (294 to 412); teachers up 112% (17 to 36).
About D.F. Huddle Elementary
At 505 Texas Avenue in Alexandria, Louisiana, D.F. Huddle Elementary operates as a mid-sized elementary school. The school counted 412 students in 2024-25, covering pre-K through 5.
A total of 43 schools make up Rapides Parish, with 21,340 students enrolled.
Black students account for 94% of the school's enrollment. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 31%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 11, compared with 70 nationally.
D.F. Huddle Elementary has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.4:1. Across elementary schools in Louisiana, the average ratio is 14.0:1. The school has 98% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Rapides Parish is 77%.
D.F. Huddle Elementary earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 41% of Louisiana public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, D.F. Huddle Elementary is 4.0 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Louisiana schools.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Rapides Parish show that the median household earns about $54,967 a year, about 23% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. Rapides Parish has 51 public schools with about 21,481 students, including D.F. Huddle Elementary.
Alexandria Middle Magnet School is about 0.2 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, D.F. Huddle Elementary ranks 6th of 8 on average proficiency.
D.F. Huddle Elementary falls in the City: Small locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
In 2020-21, federal data counted 243 students at D.F. Huddle Elementary; in 2024-25, 412. The grades served may not have been the same in both years.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Rapides Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
127,527
Census ACS
Median income
$54,967
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
51
21,481 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Rapides Parish
- Alexandria Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,475 students
- Pineville High SchoolHigh · 1,271 students
- Peabody Magnet High SchoolHigh · 1,071 students
- J.I. Barron Sr. Elementary SchoolElementary · 924 students
- Buckeye High SchoolHigh · 915 students
- Tioga High SchoolHigh · 881 students
Other schools in Alexandria
- Alexandria Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,475 students
- Peabody Magnet High SchoolHigh · 1,071 students
- Scott M. Brame Middle SchoolMiddle · 709 students
- Cherokee Elementary SchoolElementary · 576 students
- J.B. Nachman Elementary SchoolElementary · 546 students
- Mabel Brasher MontessoriElementary · 508 students
Nearby schools
- Alexandria Middle Magnet School0.2 mi · 469
- J.B. Nachman Elementary School0.8 mi · 546
- L.S. Rugg Elementary School0.8 mi · 356
- Rosenthal Montessori Elementary School0.9 mi · 366
- Bolton Academy1.2 mi · 372
- Central Louisiana Supports and Services Center1.3 mi · 37
Frequently asked questions
About D.F. Huddle ElementaryHow large is D.F. Huddle Elementary?
D.F. Huddle Elementary enrolls approximately 412 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does D.F. Huddle Elementary serve?
D.F. Huddle Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at D.F. Huddle Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at D.F. Huddle Elementary is approximately 11.4:1 (36 FTE teachers).
How diverse is D.F. Huddle Elementary?
D.F. Huddle Elementary reports a student body of 2% White, 2% Hispanic, 94% Black, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees D.F. Huddle Elementary?
D.F. Huddle Elementary is overseen by Rapides Parish in Rapides Parish.
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