Enrollment
203
Elementary
DISTRICT 311 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ACADIA PARISH·NCES 220003000011
Estherwood Elementary School
214 Jefferson Avenue, Estherwood, LA 70534 · (337) 783-6788 · Acadia Parish
GRADES PK–07ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL203 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 83% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
17.3:1
12 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
140 students
DISTRICT 70% · 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 | 19 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 21 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 21 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 26 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 26 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 17 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 22 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 23 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 28 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (21) is 25% smaller than its 7th grade class (28).
Student demographics
22%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Estherwood Elementary School→Midland High School
Based on grade levels within Acadia Parish. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
55.0%
LA avg 41.8% . -5.0pp since 2022
Math
51.0%
LA avg 34.2% . -23.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 5 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 23 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 55.0% | 51.0% |
| 2024-25 | 63.0% | 59.0% |
| 2023-24 | 55.0% | 61.0% |
| 2022-23 | 60.0% | 74.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of LA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
52.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.7%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 35% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 18 points, placing it in Louisiana's top 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 Estherwood Elementary School
Estherwood Elementary School's state test result (52.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Estherwood Elementary School this school | 203 | 69.0% | 52.5% |
| Krotz Springs Elementary School Krotz Springs | 211 | 68.7% | 37.2% |
| Union Central Elementary School Columbia | 215 | 70.7% | 24.3% |
| Enon Elementary School Franklinton | 263 | 65.0% | 30.2% |
| DeQuincy Primary School DeQuincy | 239 | 65.7% | N/A |
| Morse Elementary School Morse | 229 | 62.0% | 43.0% |
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 Estherwood Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Acadia Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.5% | #88 of 583 | #4 of 15 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #110 of 582 ▼ 47 | #5 of 15 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #120 of 587 ▼ 43 | #4 of 15 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -14.0pp | #23 of 540 | #2 of 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 203 | #653 of 714 | #14 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.3:1 | #611 of 655 | #11 of 14 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 21.7% | #538 of 655 | #12 of 14 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.0% | #420 of 705 | #9 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.1% | #204 of 436 | #7 of 10 |
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
203
-22 (-10%) vs 2020
-9% since 1990-91, when it was 222
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
was 20.4:1
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 | 203 | 11.8 | 17.3:1 | 69% (140) |
| 2023-24 | 217 | 11.8 | 18.5:1 | 68% (147) |
| 2022-23 | 220 | 12 | 18.3:1 | 70% (154) |
| 2020-21 | 225 | 11 | 20.4:1 | 51% (114) |
| 2017-18 | 245 | 11.5 | 21.3:1 | 38% (93) |
| 2015-16 | 243 | 17 | 14.3:1 | 58% (141) |
| 2010-11 | 236 | 16 | 14.8:1 | 69% (162) |
| 2000-01 | 197 | 13 | 15.2:1 | 68% (134) |
| 1990-91 | 222 | 11 | 20.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Estherwood Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (245 to 203); teachers up 2% (11.5 to 11.8).
About Estherwood Elementary School
Estherwood Elementary School is a small elementary school for students in Estherwood, Louisiana. The school has 203 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 7. By comparison, elementary schools in Louisiana enroll about 453 students on average.
Acadia Parish serves 9,043 students across 27 schools.
White students are 88% of those enrolled at Estherwood Elementary School. Other reported shares: 6% multiracial and 4% Hispanic. That compares with about 77% White among all Acadia Parish residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 22%.
The school has 11.8 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 17.3 students per teacher. Elementary schools in Louisiana have an average ratio of 14.0:1. The school reported 69% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That is in line with the 67% average for public schools in Acadia Parish.
Estherwood Elementary School earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 83% of Louisiana public elementary schools.
In Louisiana, Estherwood Elementary School is one of the top 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 52.5% compared with a predicted 34.7%.
For Acadia Parish, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $45,562 a year, 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 20% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Acadia Parish number 27, with about 9,043 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Midland High School, is about 2.4 miles. Around the school, 4 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, Estherwood Elementary School is 2nd among 8 schools close by.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Rural: Distant.
The school shrank from 225 students in 2020-21 to 203 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 20.4:1; by 2024-25 it was 17.3:1.
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Acadia Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
56,955
Census ACS
Median income
$45,562
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
14%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
20%
Below federal line
Schools in county
27
9,043 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Acadia Parish
- Mire Elementary SchoolElementary · 662 students
- Rayne High SchoolHigh · 653 students
- Iota Elementary SchoolElementary · 585 students
- Iota High SchoolHigh · 566 students
- Church Point High SchoolHigh · 504 students
- Crowley High SchoolHigh · 495 students
Nearby schools
- Midland High School2.4 mi · 317
- Egan Elementary School4.3 mi · 240
- Ross Elementary School4.6 mi · 256
- Morse Elementary School4.7 mi · 229
- North Crowley Elementary School5.1 mi · 254
- Crowley Middle School5.4 mi · 394
Frequently asked questions
About Estherwood Elementary SchoolHow large is Estherwood Elementary School?
Estherwood Elementary School enrolls approximately 203 students in grades PK-07.
What age range does Estherwood Elementary School serve?
Estherwood Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 07.
How many students per teacher at Estherwood Elementary School?
Approximately 17.3:1 students per teacher at Estherwood Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Estherwood Elementary School?
Student demographics at Estherwood Elementary School are roughly 88% White, 4% Hispanic, 2% Black, 6% Two or more.
What district is Estherwood Elementary School in?
Estherwood Elementary School is part of Acadia Parish.
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