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Does St. John Elementary School have enough mental health and stress support?
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Enrollment
670
Elementary
DISTRICT 395 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CALCASIEU PARISH·NCES 220033000264
St. John Elementary School
5566 Elliott Road, Lake Charles, LA 70605 · (337) 217-4870 · Calcasieu Parish
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL670 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 75% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- B+Test 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.
- BThree-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
12.9:1
52 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
440 students
DISTRICT 63% · 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 | 36 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 107 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 110 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 113 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 107 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 97 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 100 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (107) is 7% larger than its 5th grade class (100).
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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
55.0%
LA avg 41.8% . -1.0pp since 2022
Math
41.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +4.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 4 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 55.0% | 41.0% |
| 2024-25 | 52.0% | 41.0% |
| 2023-24 | 54.0% | 42.0% |
| 2022-23 | 56.0% | 37.0% |
% 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
43.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.0%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% 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 St. John Elementary School
St. John Elementary School's state test result (43.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. John Elementary School this school | 670 | 65.7% | 43.2% |
| Leblanc Elementary School Abbeville | 624 | 63.0% | 43.5% |
| J.I. Barron Sr. Elementary School Pineville | 924 | 64.5% | 43.2% |
| Great Hearts Harveston Baton Rouge | 579 | 62.0% | 34.8% |
| Corporal Michael Middlebrook Elementary School Lafayette | 484 | 63.2% | 40.2% |
| Broadmoor Elementary School Houma | 587 | 68.7% | 49.2% |
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 St. John Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Calcasieu Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.2% | #177 of 583 | #13 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #209 of 582 ▼ 11 | #14 of 31 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #121 of 587 ▲ 44 | #8 of 31 ▲ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.5pp | #233 of 540 | #14 of 29 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 670 | #93 of 714 | #5 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #271 of 655 | #20 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.0% | #146 of 655 | #3 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.7% | #467 of 705 | #18 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.8% | #179 of 436 | #14 of 29 |
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
670
-61 (-8%) vs 2020
+87% since 1990-91, when it was 359
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
was 19.2:1
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 | 670 | 51.9 | 12.9:1 | 66% (440) |
| 2023-24 | 688 | 46.5 | 14.8:1 | 57% (395) |
| 2022-23 | 654 | 38 | 17.2:1 | 64% (417) |
| 2020-21 | 731 | 38 | 19.2:1 | 88% (646) |
| 2017-18 | 825 | 42.6 | 19.4:1 | 49% (404) |
| 2015-16 | 834 | 64 | 13.0:1 | 54% (447) |
| 2010-11 | 926 | 55 | 16.8:1 | 54% (504) |
| 2000-01 | 564 | 33 | 17.1:1 | 44% (249) |
| 1990-91 | 359 | 17 | 21.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for St. John Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (825 to 670); teachers up 22% (42.6 to 51.9).
About St. John Elementary School
St. John Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school serving families in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The school covers pre-K through 5 and reported 670 students in 2024-25. The school is 48% bigger than the average for elementary schools in Louisiana.
Within Calcasieu Parish, St. John Elementary School is one of 56 schools. The district enrolls 27,851 students.
Of every 100 students at St. John Elementary School, about 53 are White. The rest of enrollment is 31% Black, 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Among all residents of Calcasieu Parish, the White share is about 66%. The diversity index for St. John Elementary School is 61%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
St. John Elementary School lists 51.9 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 12.9 students per teacher. Across elementary schools in Louisiana, the average ratio is 14.0:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 66% of the student body.
On the allk12 Grade, St. John Elementary School lands at A-, ahead of 75% of Louisiana public elementary schools.
Schools in Louisiana with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 37.0%. St. John Elementary School scores 43.2%.
Census data for Calcasieu Parish show median household income comes to about $67,564, about 25% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 13%. The county has 61 public schools and about 30,278 students.
Alfred M. Barbe High School is the nearest public school to St. John Elementary School, about 1.6 miles away. Within five miles of St. John Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, St. John Elementary School ranks 4th on average proficiency.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Rural: Fringe.
Enrollment figures show a decline of 61 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. The ratio was 19.2:1 in 2020-21 and 12.9:1 in 2024-25.
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Calcasieu Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
207,088
Census ACS
Median income
$67,564
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
61
30,278 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Calcasieu Parish
- Sulphur High SchoolHigh · 1,911 students
- Alfred M. Barbe High SchoolHigh · 1,908 students
- Sam Houston High SchoolHigh · 1,141 students
- S. J. Welsh Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,011 students
- Iowa High SchoolHigh · 1,007 students
- Moss Bluff Elementary SchoolElementary · 969 students
Other schools in Lake Charles
- Alfred M. Barbe High SchoolHigh · 1,908 students
- Sam Houston High SchoolHigh · 1,141 students
- S. J. Welsh Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,011 students
- Moss Bluff Elementary SchoolElementary · 969 students
- Lake Charles Charter AcademyElementary · 951 students
- LaGrange High SchoolHigh · 881 students
Nearby schools
- Alfred M. Barbe High School1.6 mi · 1,908
- S. J. Welsh Middle School2.0 mi · 1,011
- A. A. Nelson Elementary School2.1 mi · 736
- Prien Lake Elementary School2.6 mi · 639
- Dolby Elementary School2.9 mi · 360
- M. J. Kaufman Elementary School3.0 mi · 308
Frequently asked questions
About St. John Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at St. John Elementary School?
St. John Elementary School enrolls approximately 670 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does St. John Elementary School serve?
St. John Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at St. John Elementary School?
Approximately 12.9:1 students per teacher at St. John Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at St. John Elementary School?
At St. John Elementary School, the student body is approximately 53% White, 8% Hispanic, 31% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees St. John Elementary School?
St. John Elementary School is overseen by Calcasieu Parish in Calcasieu Parish.
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