Enrollment
292
Elementary
DISTRICT 587 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TANGIPAHOA PARISH·NCES 220168001323
Spring Creek Elementary School
72961 Highway 1061, Kentwood, LA 70444 · (985) 229-8363 · Tangipahoa Parish
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL292 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 60% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+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
12.1:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
201 students
DISTRICT 76% · STATE 70%
Community
0
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 | 36 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 43 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 40 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 38 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 42 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 43 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (43) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (50).
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Spring Creek Elementary School→Jewel M. Sumner Middle School
Based on grade levels within Tangipahoa Parish. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
49.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +9.0pp since 2022
Math
36.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +0.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2022, while math scores have held steady.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 49.0% | 36.0% |
| 2024-25 | 37.0% | 40.0% |
| 2023-24 | 43.0% | 42.0% |
| 2022-23 | 40.0% | 36.0% |
% 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
36.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.8%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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 Spring Creek Elementary School
Spring Creek Elementary School's state test result (36.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Creek Elementary School this school | 292 | 68.8% | 36.7% |
| Oberlin Elementary School Oberlin | 262 | 71.0% | 45.2% |
| Crescent Elementary/Junior High School Plaquemine | 379 | 70.2% | 34.5% |
| Vidrine Elementary School Ville Platte | 359 | 66.9% | 29.3% |
| DeQuincy Primary School DeQuincy | 239 | 65.7% | N/A |
| Gilbert School Gilbert | 394 | 73.9% | 24.3% |
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 Spring Creek Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Tangipahoa Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.7% | #256 of 583 | #2 of 15 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #275 of 582 ▼ 61 | #2 of 15 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #209 of 587 ▲ 125 | #2 of 15 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.5pp | #156 of 540 | #7 of 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 292 | #548 of 714 | #16 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #175 of 655 | #5 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.2% | #306 of 655 | #14 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.8% | #423 of 705 | #15 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.8% | #259 of 436 | #3 of 11 |
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
292
-9 (-3%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 328
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 15.8:1
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 | 292 | 24.2 | 12.1:1 | 69% (201) |
| 2023-24 | 302 | 21.9 | 13.8:1 | 66% (199) |
| 2022-23 | 303 | 19 | 15.9:1 | 70% (212) |
| 2020-21 | 301 | 19 | 15.8:1 | 51% (155) |
| 2017-18 | 335 | 20 | 16.8:1 | 46% (155) |
| 2015-16 | 397 | 28 | 14.2:1 | 83% (330) |
| 2010-11 | 402 | 23 | 17.5:1 | 71% (287) |
| 2000-01 | 492 | 25 | 19.7:1 | 74% (362) |
| 1990-91 | 328 | 20 | 16.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Spring Creek Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (335 to 292); teachers up 21% (20 to 24.2).
About Spring Creek Elementary School
Spring Creek Elementary School is a small elementary school based in Kentwood, Louisiana. It serves 292 students in pre-K through 5. The average among elementary schools in Louisiana is roughly 453 students; this school is 36% smaller than that.
Tangipahoa Parish is the district for Spring Creek Elementary School. It has 32 schools and 19,077 students.
At 63%, White students outnumber all other groups at Spring Creek Elementary School combined. It is also 29% Black, 5% multiracial, and 3% Hispanic. That is close to the 61% White share among all Tangipahoa Parish residents. By the diversity index, Spring Creek Elementary School comes in at 51%.
With 24.2 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at Spring Creek Elementary School was 12.1:1. The 14.0:1 average for elementary schools in Louisiana is higher than this school's figure. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 69%.
Measured against Louisiana public elementary schools, Spring Creek Elementary School receives a B. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On BeatsExpectations, Spring Creek Elementary School is 1.9 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Louisiana schools.
Spring Creek Elementary School is located in Tangipahoa Parish, where median household income is about $56,760, about 21% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 14% of residents are in poverty. Spring Creek Elementary School is one of 33 public schools in Tangipahoa Parish, which together enroll about 19,077 students.
The nearest public school is Jewel M. Sumner High School, at about 2.9 miles. Spring Creek Elementary School has 5 other public schools within five miles. Spring Creek Elementary School comes in 2nd of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Spring Creek Elementary School is coded Rural: Distant, for schools in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Enrollment was 301 in 2020-21 and 292 in 2024-25, a decrease of 9 students. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (12.1:1) than in 2020-21 (15.8:1).
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Tangipahoa Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
136,738
Census ACS
Median income
$56,760
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
14%
Below federal line
Schools in county
33
19,077 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Tangipahoa Parish
- Ponchatoula High SchoolHigh · 2,067 students
- Hammond High Magnet SchoolHigh · 1,606 students
- Hammond Eastside MagnetElementary · 1,340 students
- Champ Cooper Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,163 students
- Hammond Westside MontessoriElementary · 1,022 students
- Loranger Elementary SchoolElementary · 800 students
Other schools in Kentwood
- Jewel M. Sumner High SchoolHigh · 428 students
- Chesbrough Elementary SchoolElementary · 424 students
- O.W. Dillon Leadership AcademyElementary · 314 students
- Jewel M. Sumner Middle SchoolMiddle · 306 students
- Kentwood High Magnet SchoolHigh · 259 students
Other Spring Creek Elementary schools
15 other US public schools in 13 states are named Spring Creek Elementary. Spring Creek Elementary School is the 14th largest of the 16.
- Spring Creek ElementaryGoldsboro, NC · 804 students
- Spring Creek Elementary SchoolChattanooga, TN · 698 students
- Spring Creek Elementary SchoolCOLLEGE STATION, TX · 696 students
- Spring Creek Elementary SchoolGARLAND, TX · 673 students
- SPRING CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBONITA SPRINGS, FL · 664 students
Nearby schools
- Jewel M. Sumner High School2.9 mi · 428
- Jewel M. Sumner Middle School3.0 mi · 306
- Kentwood High Magnet School4.4 mi · 259
- Chesbrough Elementary School4.4 mi · 424
- O.W. Dillon Leadership Academy4.8 mi · 314
- Osyka Elementary School6.7 mi · 214
Frequently asked questions
About Spring Creek Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Spring Creek Elementary School?
Spring Creek Elementary School enrolls approximately 292 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Spring Creek Elementary School serve?
Spring Creek Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Spring Creek Elementary School have?
Spring Creek Elementary School employs 24 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Spring Creek Elementary School?
Student demographics at Spring Creek Elementary School are roughly 63% White, 3% Hispanic, 29% Black, 5% Two or more.
What district is Spring Creek Elementary School in?
Spring Creek Elementary School is part of Tangipahoa Parish.
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