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Enrollment
518
Elementary
DISTRICT 497 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BOSSIER PARISH·NCES 220027000133
Plantation Park Elementary School
2410 Plantation Drive, Bossier City, LA 71111 · (318) 549-5700 · Bossier Parish
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL518 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 36% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-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
13.2:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.9:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
468 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 70%
Community
5
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 | 49 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 67 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 73 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 73 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 80 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (67) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (80).
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
27.0%
LA avg 41.8% . -4.0pp since 2022
Math
17.0%
LA avg 34.2% . -13.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 13 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 27.0% | 17.0% |
| 2024-25 | 28.0% | 22.0% |
| 2023-24 | 34.0% | 26.0% |
| 2022-23 | 31.0% | 30.0% |
% 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
23.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
19.2%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% 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 Plantation Park Elementary School
Plantation Park Elementary School's state test result (23.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plantation Park Elementary School this school | 518 | 90.3% | 23.3% |
| Southdown Elementary School Houma | 572 | 91.3% | 26.0% |
| Judge Lionel R. Collins Elementary School Marrero | 414 | 85.0% | 19.2% |
| Lincoln School for the Arts Marrero | 467 | 88.4% | 18.0% |
| Woodland Park Magnet Hammond | 458 | 90.0% | 13.3% |
| Midway Elementary School Tickfaw | 440 | 86.4% | 21.3% |
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 Plantation Park Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Bossier Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.3% | #402 of 583 | #15 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.0% | #472 of 582 ▼ 66 | #18 of 19 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #453 of 587 ▼ 24 | #17 of 19 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -8.5pp | #74 of 540 | #3 of 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 518 | #232 of 714 | #8 of 20 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #302 of 655 | #8 of 20 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.4% | #349 of 655 | #16 of 20 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.3% | #119 of 705 | #1 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.3% | #186 of 436 | #9 of 14 |
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
518
-85 (-14%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 640
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 15.9:1
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 | 518 | 39.3 | 13.2:1 | 90% (468) |
| 2023-24 | 585 | 39.7 | 14.7:1 | 88% (516) |
| 2022-23 | 598 | 36.9 | 16.2:1 | 91% (547) |
| 2020-21 | 603 | 38 | 15.9:1 | 60% (360) |
| 2017-18 | 634 | 36.2 | 17.5:1 | 71% (453) |
| 2015-16 | 642 | 43 | 14.9:1 | 96% (617) |
| 2010-11 | 641 | 41 | 15.6:1 | 90% (580) |
| 2000-01 | 590 | 38 | 15.5:1 | 84% (496) |
| 1990-91 | 640 | 37 | 17.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Plantation Park Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (634 to 518); teachers up 9% (36.2 to 39.3).
About Plantation Park Elementary School
In Bossier City, Louisiana, part of Bossier Parish, Plantation Park Elementary School is an elementary school. Total enrollment is 518 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 5.
The 34 schools in Bossier Parish enroll 22,233 students altogether, Plantation Park Elementary School among them.
Of every 100 students at Plantation Park Elementary School, about 69 are Black. Beyond that, enrollment is 17% Hispanic, 8% White, 4% multiracial, and 2% Asian. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 24%. The diversity index for Plantation Park Elementary School is 48%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Plantation Park Elementary School reports a ratio of 13.2 students per teacher, from 39.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Louisiana is 14.0:1. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Plantation Park Elementary School, 90% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Bossier Parish averages 53%, lower than here.
Plantation Park Elementary School earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 36% of Louisiana public elementary schools.
Schools in Louisiana with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 19.2%. Plantation Park Elementary School scores 23.3%.
The county, Bossier Parish, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $69,617, about 28% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. The county's public schools total 34, with about 22,233 students.
The closest school to Plantation Park Elementary School is Greenacres Middle School, located about 0.5 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Plantation Park Elementary School. Its average proficiency rate of 23.3% is above the 21.8% average for nearby schools.
The NCES locale for Plantation Park Elementary School is City: Small, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 518, from 603 in 2020-21. The number of students per teacher dropped from 15.9 to 13.2 over 4 years.
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Bossier Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
129,789
Census ACS
Median income
$69,617
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
34
22,233 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bossier Parish
- Airline High SchoolHigh · 1,855 students
- Benton High SchoolHigh · 1,515 students
- Haughton High SchoolHigh · 1,360 students
- Parkway High SchoolHigh · 1,279 students
- Haughton Middle SchoolMiddle · 993 students
- Elm Grove Middle SchoolMiddle · 916 students
Other schools in Bossier City
- Airline High SchoolHigh · 1,855 students
- Parkway High SchoolHigh · 1,279 students
- Elm Grove Middle SchoolMiddle · 916 students
- Apollo Elementary SchoolElementary · 756 students
- Cope Middle SchoolMiddle · 752 students
- Bossier High SchoolHigh · 654 students
Other Plantation Park Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Plantation Park Elementary. Plantation Park Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- PLANTATION PARK ELEMENTARYPLANTATION, FL · 492 students
Nearby schools
- Greenacres Middle School0.5 mi · 543
- Airline High School0.9 mi · 1,855
- Apollo Elementary School1.0 mi · 756
- Rusheon Middle School1.5 mi · 583
- Bossier High School1.7 mi · 654
- Bossier Elementary School1.8 mi · 239
Frequently asked questions
About Plantation Park Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Plantation Park Elementary School?
Plantation Park Elementary School enrolls approximately 518 students in grades PK-05.
Is Plantation Park Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Plantation Park Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Plantation Park Elementary School have?
Plantation Park Elementary School employs 39 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.2:1.
How diverse is Plantation Park Elementary School?
Plantation Park Elementary School reports a student body of 8% White, 17% Hispanic, 69% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Plantation Park Elementary School?
Plantation Park Elementary School is overseen by Bossier Parish in Bossier Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.