Henry Heights Elementary School

Henry Heights Elementary School is one of the modestly sized K-5 schools in Lake Charles, Louisiana, run under Calcasieu Parish, with 315 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 30% smaller than the state mean of about 453.

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

In terms of who attends, Henry Heights Elementary School lists that 76% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder looks like 14% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Calcasieu Parish as a whole is about 23% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Henry Heights Elementary School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.4:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 80% of students at Henry Heights Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Calcasieu Parish's rate of about 59%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Henry Heights Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.1%; this one delivers 20.0%.

In the broader community, Calcasieu Parish reports that the typical household earns roughly $67,564 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Calcasieu Parish runs 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,278 students), of which Henry Heights Elementary School is one.

LaGrange High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Henry Heights Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Henry Heights Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 33.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Henry Heights Elementary School has shrank 16%, going from 374 students in 2018 to 315 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 68% to 76% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

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