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Kiroli Elementary School
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2023-24 . % Mastery+What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 32. Reading and writing scores are down about 9 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Kiroli Elementary School
Kiroli Elementary School is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary-level communitys in West Monroe, Louisiana, overseen by Ouachita Parish, with 450 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.
Kiroli Elementary School is one of 36 schools operated by Ouachita Parish, a district that instructs 17,435 students overall.
On the student-mix side, Kiroli Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment. Other groups include 15% Black, 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 56%.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Kiroli Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Ouachita Parish runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, Kiroli Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 51.3%.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Ouachita Parish) reports that the typical household earns roughly $54,688 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 18%. In all, Ouachita Parish runs 59 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,952 students), of which Kiroli Elementary School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Good Hope Middle School, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kiroli Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Kiroli Elementary School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 49.7%.
Geographically, the school is in a residential area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 16%: 538 students in 2018 compared to 450 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 79% to 74%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.
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Ouachita Parish at a glance
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