Fairview Elementary School

Fairview Elementary School operates as an average-sized K-5 school in Lake Charles, Louisiana, operated by Calcasieu Parish. Current enrollment sits at 518 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Calcasieu Parish runs 56 schools in total, collectively educating 27,851 students. Fairview Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Fairview Elementary School logs that 57% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 32% Black, 8% White. By comparison, Calcasieu Parish as a whole is about 5% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Roughly 59% of students at Fairview Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Fairview Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 42.1%; this one comes in at 10.7%, -31.4 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Calcasieu Parish put the typical household earns roughly $67,564 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Fairview Elementary School is one of 61 public schools in Calcasieu Parish (combined enrollment of about 30,278 students).

The closest other public school is Lake Charles College Prep, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fairview Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Fairview Elementary School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 20.3%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fairview Elementary School has climbed 5%, going from 493 students in 2018 to 518 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 27% to 57% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.