E. E. Lyon Elementary School

E. E. Lyon Elementary School operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Covington, Louisiana, run under St. Tammany Parish. Current enrollment sits at 628 students spanning grades pre-K through 3. Compared to the state average of about 453 students per school, that is 39% above typical.

Across the 55 schools in St. Tammany Parish (35,956 students total), E. E. Lyon Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, E. E. Lyon Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is White (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 29% Black, 23% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, St. Tammany Parish as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above St. Tammany Parish's rate of about 44%.

After controlling for student poverty, E. E. Lyon Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.0%, the actual is 47.0%, a residual of +7.0 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (St. Tammany Parish) logs that the typical household earns roughly $81,202 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across St. Tammany Parish's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,212 students), E. E. Lyon Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Pine View Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around E. E. Lyon Elementary School. On composite proficiency, E. E. Lyon Elementary School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. E. E. Lyon Elementary School's enrollment has grew 3% since 2018, when it stood at 610 (now 628). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 51% to 39%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.

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