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Enrollment
487
Elementary
DISTRICT 603 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ASCENSION PARISH·NCES 220009000034
G. W. Carver Primary School
11310 Legacy Oaks Lane, Gonzales, LA 70737 · (225) 391-6800 · Ascension Parish
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL487 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 67% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+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
11.0:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
72%
349 students
DISTRICT 56% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 43 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 65 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 79 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 85 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 77 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (76).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
47.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +6.0pp since 2022
Math
36.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +3.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 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 6 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 3 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 47.0% | 36.0% |
| 2024-25 | 46.0% | 39.0% |
| 2023-24 | 48.0% | 36.0% |
| 2022-23 | 41.0% | 33.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
37.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.7%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Louisiana's top nor bottom 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 G. W. Carver Primary School
G. W. Carver Primary School's state test result (37.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| G. W. Carver Primary School this school | 487 | 71.7% | 37.8% |
| Pecan Grove Primary School Gonzales | 508 | 69.1% | 43.5% |
| Gonzales Primary School Gonzales | 455 | 73.8% | 35.5% |
| Park Forest Elementary School Baton Rouge | 474 | 74.9% | 23.8% |
| S.J. Montgomery Elementary School Lafayette | 663 | 75.6% | 22.2% |
| Bayou Woods Elementary School Slidell | 431 | 71.2% | 33.0% |
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 G. W. Carver Primary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Ascension Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.8% | #248 of 583 | #16 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #265 of 582 ▼ 49 | #17 of 18 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #217 of 587 ▲ 16 | #15 of 18 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.5pp | #140 of 540 | #2 of 18 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 487 | #278 of 714 | #15 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.0:1 | #90 of 655 | #3 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.2% | #267 of 655 | #14 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.7% | #389 of 705 | #4 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.7% | #228 of 436 | #8 of 12 |
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
487
-135 (-22%) vs 2020
-32% since 1990-91, when it was 716
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
was 15.9:1
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 | 487 | 44.3 | 11.0:1 | 72% (349) |
| 2023-24 | 644 | 62.6 | 10.3:1 | 68% (437) |
| 2022-23 | 678 | 49.4 | 13.7:1 | 65% (439) |
| 2020-21 | 622 | 39 | 15.9:1 | 68% (423) |
| 2017-18 | 578 | 38.3 | 15.1:1 | 51% (294) |
| 2015-16 | 499 | 44 | 11.3:1 | 86% (429) |
| 2010-11 | 485 | 35 | 13.9:1 | 85% (410) |
| 2000-01 | 602 | 39 | 15.4:1 | 65% (390) |
| 1990-91 | 716 | 37 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for G. W. Carver Primary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (578 to 487); teachers up 16% (38.3 to 44.3).
About G. W. Carver Primary School
G. W. Carver Primary School is a medium-sized elementary school with an address in Gonzales, Louisiana. A federal count lists 487 students at the school, in pre-K through 5.
Across its 32 schools, Ascension Parish enrolls 23,743 students. G. W. Carver Primary School is one of those schools.
Roughly 63% of students at G. W. Carver Primary School are Black. Enrollment also includes 23% Hispanic, 9% White, and 5% multiracial. Among people living in Ascension Parish, the Black share is about 23%. The school's diversity index is 54%, meaning two students picked at random have a 54% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Federal data list 44.3 full-time-equivalent teachers at G. W. Carver Primary School in 2024-25, for a ratio of 11.0:1. That is lower than the 14.0:1 average for elementary schools in Louisiana. The lunch program counts 72% of students at G. W. Carver Primary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. For comparison, public schools in Ascension Parish average 52%.
Measured against Louisiana public elementary schools, G. W. Carver Primary School receives a B+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On BeatsExpectations, G. W. Carver Primary School is 5.1 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Louisiana schools.
Census estimates describe Ascension Parish this way: the median household income is $91,549, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 29% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. In all, Ascension Parish has 32 public schools and roughly 23,743 students.
The closest other public school is Gonzales Primary School, about 1.0 miles away. G. W. Carver Primary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 44.0% on proficiency, and G. W. Carver Primary School is below that at 37.8%.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
G. W. Carver Primary School's enrollment dropped from 622 in 2020-21 to 487 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 15.9:1; by 2024-25 it was 11.0:1.
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Ascension Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
130,314
Census ACS
Median income
$91,549
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
32
23,743 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Ascension Parish
- Dutchtown High SchoolHigh · 2,029 students
- East Ascension High SchoolHigh · 1,894 students
- St. Amant High SchoolHigh · 1,847 students
- Prairieville High SchoolHigh · 1,377 students
- Lake Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,096 students
- Prairieville Primary SchoolElementary · 865 students
Other schools in Gonzales
- East Ascension High SchoolHigh · 1,894 students
- Gonzales Middle SchoolMiddle · 664 students
- Central Primary SchoolElementary · 626 students
- Duplessis Primary SchoolElementary · 539 students
- Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 512 students
- Pecan Grove Primary SchoolElementary · 508 students
Nearby schools
- Gonzales Primary School1.0 mi · 455
- Gonzales Middle School1.1 mi · 664
- East Ascension High School1.5 mi · 1,894
- Pecan Grove Primary School2.1 mi · 508
- Duplessis Primary School2.8 mi · 539
- Central Primary School2.9 mi · 626
Frequently asked questions
About G. W. Carver Primary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at G. W. Carver Primary School?
G. W. Carver Primary School enrolls approximately 487 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does G. W. Carver Primary School serve?
G. W. Carver Primary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at G. W. Carver Primary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at G. W. Carver Primary School is approximately 11.0:1 (44 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at G. W. Carver Primary School?
At G. W. Carver Primary School, the student body is approximately 9% White, 23% Hispanic, 63% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is G. W. Carver Primary School public or private?
G. W. Carver Primary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Ascension Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.