Pine Grove Elementary School

Pine Grove Elementary School is an elementary school of compact scale in Shreveport, Louisiana, operated by Caddo Parish, instructing 333 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 26% below the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 453 students.

Caddo Parish comprises 57 schools with combined enrollment of 32,649 students; Pine Grove Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Pine Grove Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (94%); the rest is composed of 3% Hispanic, 2% White. By comparison, Caddo Parish as a whole is about 49% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Pine Grove Elementary School has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Caddo Parish (around 68%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Pine Grove Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 18.4%; this one delivers 10.0%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Caddo Parish put median household income runs about $50,705, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 18% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Caddo Parish runs 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,851 students), of which Pine Grove Elementary School is one.

Green Oaks Performing Arts Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pine Grove Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 16.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Pine Grove Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 16% since 2018, when it stood at 398 (now 333). The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 100% to 94% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.