Lakeside Primary School

Lakeside Primary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Prairieville, Louisiana, overseen by Ascension Parish. The school educates 545 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 20% bigger than the state mean of about 453.

Lakeside Primary School is one of 32 schools operated by Ascension Parish, a district that works with 23,743 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Lakeside Primary School logs that White students make up the majority at 61%. Other groups include 17% Black, 13% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Lakeside Primary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Ascension Parish (around 52%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lakeside Primary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.0%, the actual is 53.7%, a residual of +13.7 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Ascension Parish) records that median household earnings sit near $91,549, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Ascension Parish runs 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,743 students), of which Lakeside Primary School is one.

Galvez Primary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lakeside Primary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lakeside Primary School at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 52.3%.

Lakeside Primary School operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Lakeside Primary School's enrollment has decreased 18% since 2018, when it stood at 668 (now 545). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 7% to 13% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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