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What's the one class at Gillis Elementary School every student should take?
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Enrollment
650
Elementary
DISTRICT 395 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CALCASIEU PARISH·NCES 220033001674
Gillis Elementary School
916 Topsy Road, Lake Charles, LA 70611 · (337) 217-4550 · Calcasieu Parish
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL650 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% 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.
- 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.
- 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
12.1:1
54 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
349 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 18 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 101 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 121 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 105 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 118 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 91 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 96 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (101) is 5% larger than its 5th grade class (96).
Student demographics
37%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
58.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +9.0pp since 2022
Math
56.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +15.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 9 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 15 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 58.0% | 56.0% |
| 2024-25 | 59.0% | 44.0% |
| 2023-24 | 56.0% | 48.0% |
| 2022-23 | 49.0% | 41.0% |
% 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
47.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.7%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 Gillis Elementary School
Gillis Elementary School's state test result (47.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gillis Elementary School this school | 650 | 53.7% | 47.0% |
| Mire Elementary School Rayne | 662 | 54.4% | 44.3% |
| St. Amant Primary School St. Amant | 585 | 50.9% | 56.2% |
| Tanglewood Elementary School Baton Rouge | 622 | 55.5% | N/A |
| Haughton Elementary School Haughton | 618 | 52.8% | 47.0% |
| Loreauville Elementary School Loreauville | 679 | 51.0% | 49.3% |
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 Gillis Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Calcasieu Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #133 of 583 | #10 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.0% | #78 of 582 ▲ 89 | #5 of 31 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #97 of 587 ▲ 5 | #6 of 31 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +12.0pp | #29 of 540 | #1 of 29 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 650 | #106 of 714 | #6 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #178 of 655 | #14 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.9% | #459 of 655 | #22 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.7% | #590 of 705 | #28 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.0% | #160 of 436 | #13 of 29 |
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
650
+1 (+0%) vs 2020
+14% since 1990-91, when it was 572
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 15.4:1
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 | 650 | 53.6 | 12.1:1 | 54% (349) |
| 2023-24 | 689 | 55.3 | 12.5:1 | 55% (379) |
| 2022-23 | 691 | 46.1 | 15.0:1 | 50% (348) |
| 2020-21 | 649 | 42 | 15.4:1 | 48% (313) |
| 2017-18 | 813 | 46 | 17.7:1 | 45% (367) |
| 2015-16 | 822 | 75 | 11.0:1 | 52% (427) |
| 2010-11 | 796 | 53 | 15.0:1 | 56% (443) |
| 2000-01 | 616 | 42 | 14.7:1 | 36% (224) |
| 1990-91 | 572 | 29 | 19.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Gillis Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (813 to 650); teachers up 17% (46 to 53.6).
About Gillis Elementary School
Gillis Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school. Its address is in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Total enrollment is 650 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 5. That is 43% above the average of about 453 students for elementary schools in Louisiana.
Calcasieu Parish (56 schools, 27,851 students) runs Gillis Elementary School.
White students are 78% of those enrolled at Gillis Elementary School. Next come 8% Hispanic, 8% Black, and 5% multiracial. That compares with about 66% White among all Calcasieu Parish residents. A diversity index of 37% means there is a 37% chance two randomly chosen students at Gillis Elementary School are from different groups.
Staffing at Gillis Elementary School comes to 53.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.1:1. Elementary schools in Louisiana have an average ratio of 14.0:1. On the income side, 54% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among Louisiana public elementary schools, Gillis Elementary School outscored 78%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Schools in Louisiana with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 45.7%. Gillis Elementary School scores 47.0%.
In Calcasieu Parish, the median household earns about $67,564 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 25%, and roughly 13% of residents are in poverty. Across Calcasieu Parish, 61 public schools serve about 30,278 students.
Gillis Elementary School is about 5.0 miles from Moss Bluff Middle School, its nearest public school. Gillis Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within ten miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Gillis Elementary School at 3rd of 5.
Gillis Elementary School has an NCES locale of Rural: Fringe.
The student count changed little between 2020-21 (649) and 2024-25 (650). There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (12.1:1) than in 2020-21 (15.4:1).
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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
Nearby schools
- Moss Bluff Middle School5.0 mi · 781
- Sam Houston High School5.2 mi · 1,141
- Moss Bluff Elementary School5.2 mi · 969
- Combre-Fondel Elementary School7.6 mi · 426
- Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School8.2 mi · 265
- Washington/Marion Magnet High School8.6 mi · 597
Frequently asked questions
About Gillis Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Gillis Elementary School?
Gillis Elementary School enrolls approximately 650 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Gillis Elementary School serve?
Gillis Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Gillis Elementary School?
Approximately 12.1:1 students per teacher at Gillis Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Gillis Elementary School?
Student demographics at Gillis Elementary School are roughly 78% White, 8% Hispanic, 8% Black, 0% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Gillis Elementary School?
Gillis Elementary School is overseen by Calcasieu Parish in Calcasieu Parish.
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