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Enrollment
518
Elementary
DISTRICT 395 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CALCASIEU PARISH·NCES 220033000230
Fairview Elementary School
3955 Gerstner Mem. Drive, Lake Charles, LA 70607 · (337) 217-4490 · Calcasieu Parish
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL518 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 5% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-Three-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
11.3:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
304 students
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 70%
Community
5
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 85 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 90 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 99 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 101 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (85) is 21% larger than its 5th grade class (70).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
20.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +4.0pp since 2022
Math
18.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +8.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 8 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 20.0% | 18.0% |
| 2024-25 | 17.0% | 20.0% |
| 2023-24 | 14.0% | 11.0% |
| 2022-23 | 16.0% | 10.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of LA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
13.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.1%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-28.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 13% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 42% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Fairview Elementary School
Fairview Elementary School's state test result (13.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairview Elementary School this school | 518 | 58.7% | 13.2% |
| Esperanza Charter School New Orleans | 538 | 62.1% | N/A |
| Phoebe Hearst School Metairie | 602 | 59.3% | 24.2% |
| John Clancy/Joseph Maggiore Elementary School Kenner | 545 | 58.2% | 26.8% |
| Tom Benson School Kenner | 631 | 62.9% | 14.5% |
| Riveroaks Elementary School Baton Rouge | 492 | 66.7% | 22.7% |
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 Fairview Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Calcasieu Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 13.2% | #541 of 583 | #30 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.0% | #466 of 582 ▼ 43 | #27 of 31 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 20.0% | #527 of 587 ▲ 27 | #28 of 31 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.0pp | #104 of 540 | #5 of 29 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 518 | #233 of 714 | #12 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.3:1 | #107 of 655 | #8 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.1% | #236 of 655 | #9 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.7% | #550 of 705 | #23 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.1% | #144 of 197 | N/A |
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
518
+110 (+27%) vs 2020
+16% since 1990-91, when it was 448
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
was 13.6:1
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 | 518 | 46.1 | 11.3:1 | 59% (304) |
| 2023-24 | 615 | 45.4 | 13.6:1 | 66% (407) |
| 2022-23 | 558 | 37 | 15.1:1 | 54% (304) |
| 2020-21 | 408 | 30 | 13.6:1 | 90% (368) |
| 2017-18 | 493 | 28.9 | 17.1:1 | 51% (253) |
| 2015-16 | 431 | 47 | 9.2:1 | 60% (259) |
| 2010-11 | 402 | 30 | 13.4:1 | 86% (345) |
| 2000-01 | 503 | 32 | 15.7:1 | 60% (301) |
| 1990-91 | 448 | 24 | 18.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Fairview Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (493 to 518); teachers up 59% (28.9 to 46.1).
About Fairview Elementary School
Fairview Elementary School is an elementary school located in Lake Charles, Louisiana, in Calcasieu Parish. It is open to students in pre-K through 5 and enrolls 518 students.
Fairview Elementary School is a school in Calcasieu Parish. The district has 56 schools and 27,851 students.
More than half of enrollment at Fairview Elementary School is Hispanic: 57%. The next largest groups are 32% Black and 8% White. The school's Hispanic share is 52 points above the 5% share among Calcasieu Parish residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 56%.
On staff are 46.1 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 11.3:1. Elementary schools in Louisiana average 14.0:1, 2.7 more students per teacher than here. Fairview Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 59%. The figure for public schools in Calcasieu Parish is close, at 59%.
Among Louisiana public elementary schools, Fairview Elementary School outscored 5%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
In Louisiana, Fairview Elementary School is one of the bottom 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 13.2% compared with a predicted 42.1%.
In Calcasieu Parish, median household income comes to about $67,564, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 25% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 13%. The county's public schools total 61, with about 30,278 students.
Lake Charles College Prep is the nearest public school to Fairview Elementary School, about 0.4 miles away. Fairview Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Fairview Elementary School comes in 7th of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Federal data place Fairview Elementary School in the City: Small locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The school's student count increased 27% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. By 2024-25, the school had 11.3 students per teacher, compared with 13.6 in 2020-21.
This community page is for conversations about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. You can also rate the school on this page.
Calcasieu Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
207,088
Census ACS
Median income
$67,564
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
61
30,278 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Calcasieu Parish
- Sulphur High SchoolHigh · 1,911 students
- Alfred M. Barbe High SchoolHigh · 1,908 students
- Sam Houston High SchoolHigh · 1,141 students
- S. J. Welsh Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,011 students
- Iowa High SchoolHigh · 1,007 students
- Moss Bluff Elementary SchoolElementary · 969 students
Other schools in Lake Charles
- Alfred M. Barbe High SchoolHigh · 1,908 students
- Sam Houston High SchoolHigh · 1,141 students
- S. J. Welsh Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,011 students
- Moss Bluff Elementary SchoolElementary · 969 students
- Lake Charles Charter AcademyElementary · 951 students
- LaGrange High SchoolHigh · 881 students
Other Fairview Elementary schools
62 other US public schools in 28 states are named Fairview Elementary. Fairview Elementary School is the 18th largest of the 63.
- Fairview ElementaryModesto, CA · 786 students
- Fairview ElementaryFairfax Station, VA · 751 students
- Fairview Elementary SchoolFairview, PA · 707 students
- Fairview Elementary SchoolOklahoma City, OK · 677 students
- Fairview ElementaryFairview, NC · 646 students
Nearby schools
- Lake Charles College Prep0.4 mi · 624
- Lake Charles Charter Academy0.5 mi · 951
- Southwest Louisiana Charter Academy1.2 mi · 852
- Brentwood Elementary School1.3 mi · 272
- Oak Park Middle School1.4 mi · 388
- T. H. Watkins Elementary School1.6 mi · 165
Frequently asked questions
About Fairview Elementary SchoolHow large is Fairview Elementary School?
Fairview Elementary School enrolls approximately 518 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Fairview Elementary School serve?
Fairview Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Fairview Elementary School?
Approximately 11.3:1 students per teacher at Fairview Elementary School.
How diverse is Fairview Elementary School?
Fairview Elementary School reports a student body of 8% White, 57% Hispanic, 32% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Fairview Elementary School?
Fairview Elementary School is overseen by Calcasieu Parish in Calcasieu Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.