Queensborough Elementary School

Queensborough Elementary School operates as a small K-5 school in Shreveport, Louisiana, run under Caddo Parish. Current enrollment sits at 212 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 453 students per school, that is 53% leaner than typical.

Caddo Parish runs 57 schools in total, collectively educating 32,649 students. Queensborough Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Queensborough Elementary School records that 91% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder breaks down as 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.9:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Caddo Parish's rate of about 68%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Queensborough Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 15.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 14.0%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Caddo Parish) logs that median household income runs about $50,705, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 18% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Caddo Parish's 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,851 students), Queensborough Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Claiborne Fundamental Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Queensborough Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 27.0%.

Queensborough Elementary School operates from an inner-city location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 27%: 290 students in 2018 compared to 212 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment fell from 98% to 91% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

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