Eighty-First Street ECE Center

Eighty-First Street ECE Center is one of the one-room-style primary schools in Shreveport, Louisiana, overseen by Caddo Parish, with 35 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through K. That puts it 92% smaller than the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 453 students.

Across the 57 schools in Caddo Parish (32,649 students total), Eighty-First Street ECE Center accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Eighty-First Street ECE Center shows that 86% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest looks like 6% White, 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Caddo Parish as a whole is about 49% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 2.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Eighty-First Street ECE Center tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 77% of students at Eighty-First Street ECE Center qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Caddo Parish runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Caddo Parish) logs that the typical household earns roughly $50,705 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 18% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Eighty-First Street ECE Center is one of 61 public schools in Caddo Parish (combined enrollment of about 33,851 students).

Nearest neighbor: Eden Gardens Fundamental Elementary School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 79%: 163 students in 2018 compared to 35 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 95% to 86% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 2.0:1 in 2025.

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