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North Caddo Elementary-Middle School
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2023-24 . % Mastery+What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 32. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% 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 North Caddo Elementary-Middle School
Set in Vivian, Louisiana, North Caddo Elementary-Middle School is a reasonably sized elementary school, part of Caddo Parish. It instructs 502 students across grades pre-K through 8.
Caddo Parish comprises 57 schools with combined enrollment of 32,649 students; North Caddo Elementary-Middle School is among them.
On the student-mix side, North Caddo Elementary-Middle School logs that 48% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 38% White, 7% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at school resources, North Caddo Elementary-Middle School records 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Roughly 80% of students at North Caddo Elementary-Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Caddo Parish (around 68%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.
With demographic context factored in, North Caddo Elementary-Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.5%, the actual is 13.7%, a residual of -12.9 points.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Caddo Parish) records that median household income runs about $50,705, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 18%. In all, Caddo Parish runs 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,851 students), of which North Caddo Elementary-Middle School is one.
The closest other public school is North Caddo High School, roughly 1.1 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, North Caddo Elementary-Middle School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 38.0%.
North Caddo Elementary-Middle School operates from a small-town location.
Over the past 7-year window. North Caddo Elementary-Middle School's enrollment has declined 34% since 2018, when it stood at 756 (now 502). White enrollment moved from 44% to 38% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.
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Caddo Parish at a glance
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