Enrollment
315
Elementary
DISTRICT 395 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CALCASIEU PARISH·NCES 220033000236
Henry Heights Elementary School
3600 Louisiana Avenue, Lake Charles, LA 70607 · (337) 217-4620 · Calcasieu Parish
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL315 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 18% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
9.4:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
251 students
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 70%
Community
0
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 | 37 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 49 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 43 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 38 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 44 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (49) is 11% larger than its 5th grade class (44).
Student demographics
41%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
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LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
30.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +2.0pp since 2022
Math
20.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +1.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 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 2 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 1 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 30.0% | 20.0% |
| 2024-25 | 32.0% | 15.0% |
| 2023-24 | 30.0% | 14.0% |
| 2022-23 | 28.0% | 19.0% |
% 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
20.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.9%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% 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 Henry Heights Elementary School
Henry Heights Elementary School's state test result (20.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Heights Elementary School this school | 315 | 79.7% | 20.0% |
| Vacherie Elementary School Vacherie | 364 | 79.7% | 26.5% |
| College Oaks Elementary School Lake Charles | 278 | 82.0% | 21.0% |
| North Highlands Elementary School Shreveport | 355 | 76.3% | 20.7% |
| Glynn H. Brock Elementary School Slidell | 345 | 78.8% | 23.7% |
| J. L. Jones Elementary School Minden | 318 | 83.3% | 20.2% |
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 Henry Heights Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Calcasieu Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.0% | #450 of 583 | #26 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.0% | #435 of 582 ▲ 55 | #22 of 31 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.0% | #417 of 587 ▼ 27 | #23 of 31 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.5pp | #232 of 540 | #13 of 29 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 315 | #521 of 714 | #21 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.4:1 | #24 of 655 | #1 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.5% | #430 of 655 | #18 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.7% | #279 of 705 | #13 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.8% | #227 of 436 | #19 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
315
-11 (-3%) vs 2020
-40% since 1990-91, when it was 522
Student : Teacher
9.4:1
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 | 315 | 33.5 | 9.4:1 | 80% (251) |
| 2023-24 | 324 | 33.9 | 9.6:1 | 75% (243) |
| 2022-23 | 286 | 22.8 | 12.6:1 | 76% (216) |
| 2020-21 | 326 | 24 | 13.6:1 | 94% (308) |
| 2017-18 | 374 | 29 | 12.9:1 | 50% (188) |
| 2015-16 | 378 | 49 | 7.7:1 | 54% (203) |
| 2010-11 | 397 | 34 | 11.7:1 | 77% (305) |
| 2000-01 | 419 | 30 | 14.0:1 | 66% (275) |
| 1990-91 | 522 | 26 | 20.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Henry Heights Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (374 to 315); teachers up 15% (29 to 33.5).
About Henry Heights Elementary School
Henry Heights Elementary School is an elementary school in Lake Charles, Louisiana, reachable at (337) 217-4620. The school enrolls 315 students in pre-K through 5. That compares with an average of about 453 students for elementary schools in Louisiana.
Calcasieu Parish is made up of 56 schools with 27,851 students in all.
About 76% of the student body at Henry Heights Elementary School is Black. Other students are 14% White, 5% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Calcasieu Parish residents are about 23% Black. A diversity index of 41% means there is a 41% chance two randomly chosen students at Henry Heights Elementary School are from different groups.
There are 33.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 9.4:1. Across elementary schools in Louisiana, the average ratio is 14.0:1. Of all students at Henry Heights Elementary School, 80% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 59% average for public schools in Calcasieu Parish, the school's rate is higher.
Among Louisiana public elementary schools, Henry Heights Elementary School outscored 18%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
Schools in Louisiana with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 26.9%. Henry Heights Elementary School scores 20.0%.
The school is in Calcasieu Parish, where the median household earns about $67,564 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 25% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 13%. Henry Heights Elementary School shares Calcasieu Parish with 60 other public schools.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, LaGrange High School, is about 0.3 miles. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. On average proficiency, Henry Heights Elementary School is 5th of 7 nearby schools with test data.
Its location is classified as City: Small by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 3%, from 326 to 315. Students per teacher dropped from 13.6 in 2020-21 to 9.4 in 2024-25.
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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
- LaGrange High School0.3 mi · 881
- Brentwood Elementary School0.4 mi · 272
- T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School1.0 mi · 300
- College Oaks Elementary School1.1 mi · 278
- F. K. White Middle School1.1 mi · 614
- Oak Park Elementary School1.3 mi · 259
Frequently asked questions
About Henry Heights Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Henry Heights Elementary School?
Henry Heights Elementary School enrolls approximately 315 students in grades PK-05.
Is Henry Heights Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Henry Heights Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Henry Heights Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Henry Heights Elementary School is approximately 9.4:1 (33 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Henry Heights Elementary School?
Student demographics at Henry Heights Elementary School are roughly 14% White, 4% Hispanic, 76% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Henry Heights Elementary School public or private?
Henry Heights Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Calcasieu Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.