South Crowley Elementary School

South Crowley Elementary School operates as an intimate K-5 school in Crowley, Louisiana, one of the schools within Acadia Parish. Current enrollment sits at 320 students spanning grades 1 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 29% leaner than the state mean of about 453.

Acadia Parish runs 27 schools in total, collectively educating 9,043 students. South Crowley Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, South Crowley Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 29% Black, 13% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

In terms of school funding signals, South Crowley Elementary School lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Roughly 89% of students at South Crowley Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Acadia Parish runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, South Crowley Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.4%, the actual is 21.3%, a residual of +0.9 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Acadia Parish indicate the typical household earns roughly $45,562 per year, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 20%. Across Acadia Parish's 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,043 students), South Crowley Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Crowley Kindergarten School, around 1.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around South Crowley Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), South Crowley Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 27.8%.

South Crowley Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 7%: 344 students in 2018 compared to 320 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 62% to 51% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

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