Enrollment
360
Elementary
DISTRICT 395 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CALCASIEU PARISH·NCES 220033000228
Dolby Elementary School
817 Jefferson Drive, Lake Charles, LA 70605 · (337) 217-4730 · Calcasieu Parish
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL360 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 54% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- B+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.
- DThree-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
11.5:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
221 students
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 70%
Community
0
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 | 25 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 56 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 53 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 59 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 49 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is 14% larger than its 5th grade class (49).
Student demographics
61%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
52.0%
LA avg 41.8% . -10.0pp since 2022
Math
36.0%
LA avg 34.2% . -16.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 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 10 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 16 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 52.0% | 36.0% |
| 2024-25 | 52.0% | 39.0% |
| 2023-24 | 55.0% | 39.0% |
| 2022-23 | 62.0% | 52.0% |
% 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
42.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.1%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 Dolby Elementary School
Dolby Elementary School's state test result (42.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolby Elementary School this school | 360 | 61.4% | 42.0% |
| Brusly Upper Elementary School Brusly | 334 | 62.9% | 43.7% |
| Lukeville Elementary School Brusly | 356 | 64.6% | 42.5% |
| Swartz Upper Elementary School Monroe | 350 | 66.3% | 30.8% |
| Swartz Lower Elementary School Monroe | 325 | 65.2% | N/A |
| John L. Ory Communications Magnet Elementary LaPlace | 428 | 63.6% | 40.3% |
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 Dolby Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Calcasieu Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #196 of 583 | #14 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #266 of 582 ▼ 49 | #17 of 31 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #157 of 587 ▲ 6 | #11 of 31 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -13.0pp | #29 of 540 | #1 of 29 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 360 | #457 of 714 | #19 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.5:1 | #122 of 655 | #11 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.6% | #152 of 655 | #4 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.4% | #525 of 705 | #20 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.9% | #317 of 436 | #22 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
360
+58 (+19%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 376
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
was 15.1:1
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 | 360 | 31.2 | 11.5:1 | 61% (221) |
| 2023-24 | 350 | 32.8 | 10.7:1 | 61% (212) |
| 2022-23 | 381 | 24.2 | 15.8:1 | 64% (244) |
| 2020-21 | 302 | 20 | 15.1:1 | 54% (164) |
| 2017-18 | 395 | 24 | 16.5:1 | 47% (187) |
| 2015-16 | 411 | 44 | 9.3:1 | 53% (217) |
| 2010-11 | 525 | 38 | 13.8:1 | 61% (321) |
| 2000-01 | 297 | 25 | 11.9:1 | 28% (83) |
| 1990-91 | 376 | 24 | 15.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dolby Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (395 to 360); teachers up 30% (24 to 31.2).
About Dolby Elementary School
Located in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Dolby Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school. A federal count lists 360 students at the school, in pre-K through 5. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Louisiana) has about 453 students.
The 56 schools of Calcasieu Parish, including Dolby Elementary School, enroll 27,851 students.
Federal enrollment data show Black students as the largest group at Dolby Elementary School, at 47%. Other groups make up 41% White, 6% Hispanic, and 6% multiracial. County-wide, 23% of Calcasieu Parish residents are Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 61% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The ratio of students to teachers is 11.5:1, with 31.2 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. That is 2.4 students per teacher below the 14.0:1 average for elementary schools in Louisiana. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 61%. That tracks the 59% average for public schools in Calcasieu Parish.
Dolby Elementary School is graded B- by allk12, scoring above 54% of Louisiana public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for Dolby Elementary School is 40.1%, and its average proficiency rate on state tests is 42.0%.
Within Calcasieu Parish, the median household income is $67,564, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 25% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 13%. In all, Calcasieu Parish has 61 public schools and roughly 30,278 students.
A. A. Nelson Elementary School is located about 0.8 miles from Dolby Elementary School. The five-mile area around Dolby Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Dolby Elementary School comes in 3rd of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is City: Small: the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The school enrolled 360 students in 2024-25, 58 more than the 302 it had in 2020-21. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 15.1:1; by 2024-25 it was 11.5:1.
Questions about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news can be posted here. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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 Lake Charles
- Alfred M. Barbe High SchoolHigh · 1,908 students
- Sam Houston High SchoolHigh · 1,141 students
- S. J. Welsh Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,011 students
- Moss Bluff Elementary SchoolElementary · 969 students
- Lake Charles Charter AcademyElementary · 951 students
- LaGrange High SchoolHigh · 881 students
Nearby schools
- A. A. Nelson Elementary School0.8 mi · 736
- M. J. Kaufman Elementary School0.9 mi · 308
- F. K. White Middle School0.9 mi · 614
- S. J. Welsh Middle School1.4 mi · 1,011
- College Oaks Elementary School1.6 mi · 278
- Southwest Louisiana Charter Academy1.6 mi · 852
Frequently asked questions
About Dolby Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Dolby Elementary School?
Dolby Elementary School enrolls approximately 360 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Dolby Elementary School serve?
Dolby Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Dolby Elementary School?
Approximately 11.5:1 students per teacher at Dolby Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Dolby Elementary School?
Student demographics at Dolby Elementary School are roughly 41% White, 6% Hispanic, 47% Black, 0% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Dolby Elementary School in?
Dolby Elementary School is part of Calcasieu Parish.
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