Enrollment
232
Elementary
DISTRICT 333 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. LANDRY PARISH·NCES 220156001200
Northeast Elementary School
1125 E Mamie Street, Opelousas, LA 70570 · (337) 942-5390 · St. Landry Parish
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL232 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 24% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-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
9.3:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.6:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
210 students
DISTRICT 81% · STATE 70%
Community
0
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 | 16 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 46 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 36 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 40 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (46) is about the same size as its 4th grade class (48).
Student demographics
13%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · 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
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
29.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +1.0pp since 2022
Math
15.0%
LA avg 34.2% . -7.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 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 7 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 29.0% | 15.0% |
| 2024-25 | 28.0% | 12.0% |
| 2023-24 | 24.0% | 17.0% |
| 2022-23 | 28.0% | 22.0% |
% 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
18.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
19.1%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 19% 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 Northeast Elementary School
Northeast Elementary School's state test result (18.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northeast Elementary School this school | 232 | 90.5% | 18.7% |
| Midway Professional Development Center Shreveport | 234 | 91.5% | 14.2% |
| Pearl Watson Elementary School Lake Charles | 219 | 91.8% | 20.5% |
| New Vision Learning Academy Monroe | 227 | 91.2% | 12.7% |
| Dr. Raphael A. Baranco Elementary School Lafayette | 247 | 93.1% | 14.5% |
| Sharon Hills Elementary School Baton Rouge | 213 | 93.9% | 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 Northeast Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In St. Landry Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.7% | #468 of 583 | #13 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.0% | #509 of 582 ▲ 27 | #15 of 16 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.0% | #435 of 587 ▲ 6 | #11 of 16 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.0pp | #178 of 540 | #7 of 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 232 | #621 of 714 | #12 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.3:1 | #22 of 655 | #1 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 13.2% | #605 of 655 | #14 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.5% | #116 of 705 | #4 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -48.0% | #12 of 436 | #1 of 11 |
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
232
-189 (-45%) vs 2020
-41% since 1990-91, when it was 390
Student : Teacher
9.3:1
was 18.3:1
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 | 232 | 25 | 9.3:1 | 91% (210) |
| 2023-24 | 262 | 25.3 | 10.4:1 | 87% (229) |
| 2022-23 | 322 | 23.5 | 13.7:1 | 86% (278) |
| 2020-21 | 421 | 23 | 18.3:1 | 78% (329) |
| 2017-18 | 446 | 25 | 17.8:1 | 78% (349) |
| 2015-16 | 486 | 28 | 17.4:1 | 78% (380) |
| 2010-11 | 490 | 32 | 15.3:1 | 97% (476) |
| 2000-01 | 349 | 24 | 14.5:1 | 95% (330) |
| 1990-91 | 390 | 22 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Northeast Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 48% (446 to 232); teachers unchanged (25 to 25).
About Northeast Elementary School
Northeast Elementary School is classified as an elementary school. It is located in Opelousas, Louisiana. It reported 232 students in pre-K through 4 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 453 students for elementary schools in Louisiana.
Northeast Elementary School is one school in St. Landry Parish, a system of 32 schools with 10,982 students.
By race and ethnicity, Northeast Elementary School is 93% Black. Other groups include 3% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. The county population is about 40% Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 13%.
Northeast Elementary School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.3:1, with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Louisiana, 14.0:1, is higher. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 91% at Northeast Elementary School. Compared with the 80% average for public schools in St. Landry Parish, the school's rate is higher.
Northeast Elementary School holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 24% of Louisiana public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Northeast Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of Louisiana schools: 18.7% actual against 19.1% predicted.
The school is in St. Landry Parish, where the median household earns about $44,462 a year, about 15% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 22%. Northeast Elementary School shares St. Landry Parish with 36 other public schools.
Opelousas Middle School is the nearest public school to Northeast Elementary School, about 0.9 miles away. Northeast Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Northeast Elementary School comes in 4th of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Northeast Elementary School falls in the Town: Distant locale category, used for schools in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
Federal data put enrollment at 421 in 2020-21 and 232 in 2024-25; the school may have served different grades in those years. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (9.3:1) than in 2020-21 (18.3:1).
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St. Landry Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
81,670
Census ACS
Median income
$44,462
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
15%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
22%
Below federal line
Schools in county
37
11,731 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in St. Landry Parish
- Beau Chene High SchoolHigh · 767 students
- Opelousas Senior High SchoolHigh · 698 students
- Leonville Elementary SchoolElementary · 616 students
- Eunice High SchoolHigh · 606 students
- Northwest High SchoolHigh · 575 students
- Lawtell Elementary SchoolElementary · 567 students
Other schools in Opelousas
- Opelousas Senior High SchoolHigh · 698 students
- Northwest High SchoolHigh · 575 students
- Park Vista Elementary SchoolElementary · 533 students
- JS Clark Leadership AcademyCombined · 434 students
- Grolee Elementary SchoolElementary · 404 students
- St. Landry Charter SchoolElementary · 315 students
Other Northeast Elementary schools
24 other US public schools in 17 states are named Northeast Elementary. Northeast Elementary School is the 22nd largest of the 25.
- Northeast Elementary SchoolPride, LA · 178 students
- NORTHEAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBRENTWOOD, NY · 937 students
- Northeast Elementary SchoolMeridian, MS · 730 students
- Northeast ElementaryClarksville, TN · 722 students
- Northeast ElementaryAnkeny, IA · 595 students
Nearby schools
- Opelousas Middle School0.9 mi · 132
- Magnet Academy for Cultural Arts1.1 mi · 289
- Creswell Middle School1.3 mi · 162
- Opelousas Junior High School1.3 mi · 314
- Park Vista Elementary School1.6 mi · 533
- JS Clark Leadership Academy1.9 mi · 434
Frequently asked questions
About Northeast Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Northeast Elementary School?
Northeast Elementary School enrolls approximately 232 students in grades PK-04.
What grades does Northeast Elementary School serve?
Northeast Elementary School serves grades PK-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Northeast Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Northeast Elementary School is approximately 9.3:1 (25 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Northeast Elementary School?
Northeast Elementary School reports a student body of 2% White, 3% Hispanic, 93% Black, 3% Two or more.
Is Northeast Elementary School public or private?
Northeast Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by St. Landry Parish.
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