Lockport Upper Elementary School

As an intimate elementary campus in Lockport, Louisiana, Lockport Upper Elementary School instructs 374 students from grades 3 through 5, operated by Lafourche Parish.

Across the 30 schools in Lafourche Parish (13,326 students total), Lockport Upper Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Lockport Upper Elementary School logs that 76% of the student body identifies as White; the rest reads as 9% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Black, 3% Native American. Compared to Lafourche Parish overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Lockport Upper Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 53% of students at Lockport Upper Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Lafourche Parish (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lockport Upper Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Louisiana schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 46.1%; actual is 66.0%, +19.9 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Lafourche Parish indicate the typical household earns roughly $63,135 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Lafourche Parish runs 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,426 students), of which Lockport Upper Elementary School is one.

Lockport Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lockport Upper Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 41.3%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Lockport Upper Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 4% since 2018, when it stood at 389 (now 374). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.7:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 today.

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