Fairfield Magnet School

Fairfield Magnet School, a mid-sized elementary-level community in Shreveport, Louisiana, overseen by Caddo Parish, educates 512 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Within Caddo Parish, which oversees 57 schools and 32,649 students, Fairfield Magnet School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Fairfield Magnet School records that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. Other groups include 22% Black, 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 19% of students at Fairfield Magnet School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Caddo Parish (around 68%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Fairfield Magnet School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.7%, the actual is 82.0%, a residual of +11.3 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Caddo Parish put 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. In all, Caddo Parish runs 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,851 students), of which Fairfield Magnet School is one.

Nearest neighbor: South Highlands Elementary Magnet School, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fairfield Magnet School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 43.6%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 5%: 487 students in 2018 compared to 512 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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