Plantation Park Elementary School

Plantation Park Elementary School is one of the mid-sized K-5 schools in Bossier City, Louisiana, operated by Bossier Parish, with 518 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Bossier Parish runs 34 schools in total, collectively educating 22,233 students. Plantation Park Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Plantation Park Elementary School logs that 69% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school shows 17% Hispanic, 8% White, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Roughly 90% of students at Plantation Park Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Bossier Parish's rate of about 53%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Plantation Park Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.5%, the actual is 25.3%, a residual of +5.8 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Bossier Parish) logs that median household income runs about $69,617, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bossier Parish runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,233 students), of which Plantation Park Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Greenacres Middle School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 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), Plantation Park Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 22.6%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 18%: 634 students in 2018 compared to 518 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, members of the Plantation Park Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.