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Alumni: what's one memory from Lessie Moore Elementary School that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
392
Elementary
DISTRICT 400 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RAPIDES PARISH·NCES 220129001081
Lessie Moore Elementary School
207 Griffith Street, Pineville, LA 71360 · (318) 445-7151 · Rapides Parish
GRADES PK–03ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL392 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 50% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
13.2:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
374 students
DISTRICT 80% · STATE 70%
Community
1
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 | 58 | 15% |
| Kindergarten | 82 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 21% |
| Grade 2 | 80 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 23% |
Student demographics
42%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Lessie Moore Elementary School→Pineville Elementary School
Based on grade levels within Rapides Parish. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
36.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +1.0pp since 2022
Math
19.0%
LA avg 34.2% . -1.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 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 1 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 1 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 36.0% | 19.0% |
| 2024-25 | 31.0% | 16.0% |
| 2023-24 | 48.0% | 21.0% |
| 2022-23 | 35.0% | 20.0% |
% 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
24.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
15.6%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 16% 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 Lessie Moore Elementary School
Lessie Moore Elementary School's state test result (24.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lessie Moore Elementary School this school | 392 | 95.4% | 24.7% |
| Amite Elementary Magnet School Amite | 431 | 94.9% | 17.0% |
| Central Elementary School Bogalusa | 416 | 94.2% | 12.7% |
| Johnston Hopkins Elementary School New Iberia | 350 | 94.9% | 17.8% |
| Park Elementary School New Iberia | 440 | 95.2% | 21.8% |
| Homer Elementary School Homer | 339 | 95.9% | 12.7% |
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 Lessie Moore Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Rapides Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.7% | #380 of 583 | #16 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.0% | #458 of 582 ▲ 23 | #19 of 24 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #342 of 587 ▲ 65 | #16 of 24 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.0pp | #287 of 540 | #14 of 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 392 | #411 of 714 | #11 of 25 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #300 of 655 | #8 of 24 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.3% | #415 of 655 | #10 of 24 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.4% | #49 of 705 | #9 of 25 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.9% | #136 of 197 | #4 of 9 |
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
392
-47 (-11%) vs 2020
+17% since 1990-91, when it was 336
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 15.7:1
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 | 392 | 29.8 | 13.2:1 | 95% (374) |
| 2023-24 | 409 | 30 | 13.6:1 | 94% (384) |
| 2022-23 | 424 | 27.4 | 15.5:1 | 93% (394) |
| 2020-21 | 439 | 28 | 15.7:1 | 77% (340) |
| 2017-18 | 370 | 19 | 19.5:1 | 93% (345) |
| 2015-16 | 416 | 34 | 12.2:1 | 85% (354) |
| 2010-11 | 431 | 30 | 14.4:1 | 84% (360) |
| 2000-01 | 386 | 28 | 13.8:1 | 88% (340) |
| 1990-91 | 336 | 23 | 14.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lessie Moore Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 6% (370 to 392); teachers up 57% (19 to 29.8).
About Lessie Moore Elementary School
Lessie Moore Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Louisiana, with an address in Pineville. It offers pre-K through 3 and has 392 students enrolled.
Rapides Parish (43 schools, 21,340 students) runs Lessie Moore Elementary School.
About 72% of the student body at Lessie Moore Elementary School is Black. Other groups make up 22% White and 4% multiracial. County-wide, 31% of Rapides Parish residents are Black. A diversity index of 42% means there is a 42% chance two randomly chosen students at Lessie Moore Elementary School are from different groups.
Lessie Moore Elementary School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.2:1, with 29.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Louisiana is 14.0:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 95% at Lessie Moore Elementary School. It compares with 77% for public schools in Rapides Parish.
On the allk12 Grade, Lessie Moore Elementary School lands at B-, ahead of 50% of Louisiana public elementary schools.
Lessie Moore Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 24.7%, compared with a predicted 15.6%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Louisiana schools on BeatsExpectations.
The county, Rapides Parish, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $54,967 a year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Lessie Moore Elementary School, Rapides Parish has 51 public schools.
Pineville High School is about 0.8 miles from Lessie Moore Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Among the 6 closest schools with test data, this one included, Lessie Moore Elementary School ranks 5th on average proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes Lessie Moore Elementary School as Suburb: Small.
In 2020-21, Lessie Moore Elementary School enrolled 439 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 392. Federal data show the ratio falling from 15.7:1 to 13.2:1.
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Rapides Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
127,527
Census ACS
Median income
$54,967
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
51
21,481 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Rapides Parish
- Alexandria Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,475 students
- Pineville High SchoolHigh · 1,271 students
- Peabody Magnet High SchoolHigh · 1,071 students
- J.I. Barron Sr. Elementary SchoolElementary · 924 students
- Buckeye High SchoolHigh · 915 students
- Tioga High SchoolHigh · 881 students
Other schools in Pineville
- Pineville High SchoolHigh · 1,271 students
- J.I. Barron Sr. Elementary SchoolElementary · 924 students
- Pineville Junior High SchoolMiddle · 527 students
- Tioga Junior High SchoolMiddle · 415 students
- Ruby-Wise Elementary SchoolElementary · 410 students
- Mary Goff Elementary SchoolElementary · 365 students
Nearby schools
- Pineville High School0.8 mi · 1,271
- Pineville Elementary School1.1 mi · 252
- Pineville Junior High School1.2 mi · 527
- J.I. Barron Sr. Elementary School2.1 mi · 924
- Pinecrest Supports & Services Center2.4 mi · 92
- Peabody Montessori Elementary School2.4 mi · 466
Frequently asked questions
About Lessie Moore Elementary SchoolHow large is Lessie Moore Elementary School?
Lessie Moore Elementary School enrolls approximately 392 students in grades PK-03.
Is Lessie Moore Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Lessie Moore Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-03.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Lessie Moore Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lessie Moore Elementary School is approximately 13.2:1 (30 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Lessie Moore Elementary School?
Student demographics at Lessie Moore Elementary School are roughly 22% White, 0% Hispanic, 72% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Lessie Moore Elementary School?
Lessie Moore Elementary School is overseen by Rapides Parish in Rapides Parish.
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