North Crowley Elementary School

North Crowley Elementary School is an elementary school of cozy scale in Crowley, Louisiana, one of the schools within Acadia Parish, teacheing 254 students in grades 1 through 5. That puts it 44% leaner than the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 453 students.

Acadia Parish comprises 27 schools with combined enrollment of 9,043 students; North Crowley Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, North Crowley Elementary School records that the most-represented group is Black (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 41% White, 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

Looking at school resources, North Crowley Elementary School lists 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting North Crowley Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Acadia Parish runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), North Crowley Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.7%, the actual is 21.3%, a residual of -3.4 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Acadia Parish) logs that the typical household earns roughly $45,562 per year, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 20%. Across Acadia Parish's 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,043 students), North Crowley Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Crowley Middle School, roughly 0.4 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), North Crowley Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 24.8%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 17%: 305 students in 2018 compared to 254 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 51% to 43% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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