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Enrollment
480
Elementary
DISTRICT 603 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ASCENSION PARISH·NCES 220009002269
Spanish Lake Primary School
13323 Bluff Road, Geismar, LA 70734 · (225) 391-7650 · Ascension Parish
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL480 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 90% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-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
13.8:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
222 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 | 8 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 68 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 80 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 84 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 84 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 79 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (68) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (79).
Student demographics
63%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
69.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +0.0pp since 2022
Math
62.0%
LA avg 34.2% . -11.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2022, while math scores are down about 11 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 69.0% | 62.0% |
| 2024-25 | 74.0% | 63.0% |
| 2023-24 | 72.0% | 69.0% |
| 2022-23 | 69.0% | 73.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of LA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
65.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.1%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 51% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 14 points, placing it in Louisiana's top 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 Spanish Lake Primary School
Spanish Lake Primary School's state test result (65.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spanish Lake Primary School this school | 480 | 46.3% | 65.5% |
| W.T. Lewis Elementary School Bossier City | 558 | 43.2% | 46.3% |
| Sun City Elementary School Bossier City | 492 | 49.4% | 41.2% |
| Cecil Picard Elementary School at Maurice Maurice | 592 | 48.0% | 63.8% |
| Stockwell Place Elementary School Bossier City | 496 | 44.0% | 65.7% |
| Honey Island Elementary School Slidell | 607 | 46.0% | 44.0% |
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 Spanish Lake Primary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Ascension Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.5% | #32 of 583 | #4 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #51 of 582 ▼ 8 | #5 of 18 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.0% | #41 of 587 ▼ 12 | #5 of 18 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -5.5pp | #123 of 540 | #8 of 18 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 480 | #288 of 714 | #16 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #394 of 655 | #14 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.0% | #113 of 655 | #6 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 46.3% | #638 of 705 | #14 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -43.5% | #17 of 436 | #1 of 12 |
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
480
-62 (-11%) vs 2020
-38% since 2010-11, when it was 780
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 18.7:1
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 | 480 | 34.7 | 13.8:1 | 46% (222) |
| 2023-24 | 556 | 42.4 | 13.1:1 | 46% (253) |
| 2022-23 | 540 | 34.8 | 15.5:1 | 41% (221) |
| 2020-21 | 542 | 29 | 18.7:1 | 31% (170) |
| 2017-18 | 850 | 44.3 | 19.2:1 | 26% (223) |
| 2015-16 | 816 | 52 | 15.7:1 | 29% (239) |
| 2010-11 | 780 | 51 | 15.3:1 | 32% (253) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Spanish Lake Primary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 44% (850 to 480); teachers down 22% (44.3 to 34.7).
About Spanish Lake Primary School
Spanish Lake Primary School operates as a medium-sized elementary school in Geismar, Louisiana. It covers pre-K through 5, with a total enrollment of 480 students.
Ascension Parish serves 23,743 students across 32 schools.
Spanish Lake Primary School's enrollment is 54% White. Other groups make up 24% Black, 15% Hispanic, 4% Asian, and 4% multiracial. County-wide, 64% of Ascension Parish residents are White. Spanish Lake Primary School has a diversity index of 63%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teachers at Spanish Lake Primary School total 34.7 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 13.8:1. Elementary schools in Louisiana have a similar average ratio of 14.0:1. The school counts 222 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 46%.
Measured against Louisiana public elementary schools, Spanish Lake Primary School receives an A. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Spanish Lake Primary School beats its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests by 14.4 points (65.5% versus 51.1%), a top-10% result in Louisiana on BeatsExpectations.
Ascension Parish census figures show that median household income is about $91,549, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Spanish Lake Primary School is among the 32 public schools in Ascension Parish.
Nearby, Dutchtown High School is about 1.1 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Spanish Lake Primary School is 4th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Spanish Lake Primary School falls in the Rural: Fringe locale category, used for schools in rural territory close to an urban area.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Spanish Lake Primary School went from 542 students to 480. Its ratio of students to teachers was 18.7:1 in 2020-21, and 13.8:1 in 2024-25.
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Ascension Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
130,314
Census ACS
Median income
$91,549
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
32
23,743 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Ascension Parish
- Dutchtown High SchoolHigh · 2,029 students
- East Ascension High SchoolHigh · 1,894 students
- St. Amant High SchoolHigh · 1,847 students
- Prairieville High SchoolHigh · 1,377 students
- Lake Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,096 students
- Prairieville Primary SchoolElementary · 865 students
Other schools in Geismar
- Dutchtown High SchoolHigh · 2,029 students
- Dutchtown Middle SchoolMiddle · 605 students
- Dutchtown Primary SchoolElementary · 541 students
Nearby schools
- Dutchtown High School1.1 mi · 2,029
- Dutchtown Middle School1.3 mi · 605
- Dutchtown Primary School1.4 mi · 541
- Bluff Ridge Primary1.8 mi · 677
- Duplessis Primary School2.5 mi · 539
- Bluff Middle School2.6 mi · 662
Frequently asked questions
About Spanish Lake Primary SchoolHow many students attend Spanish Lake Primary School?
Spanish Lake Primary School enrolls approximately 480 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Spanish Lake Primary School serve?
Spanish Lake Primary School serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Spanish Lake Primary School?
Approximately 13.8:1 students per teacher at Spanish Lake Primary School.
What is the student diversity at Spanish Lake Primary School?
Student demographics at Spanish Lake Primary School are roughly 54% White, 15% Hispanic, 24% Black, 4% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Spanish Lake Primary School in?
Spanish Lake Primary School is part of Ascension Parish.
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