St. John Elementary School

St. John Elementary School is one of the average-sized K-5 schools in Lake Charles, Louisiana, overseen by Calcasieu Parish, with 670 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 48% above the state mean of about 453.

St. John Elementary School is one of 56 schools operated by Calcasieu Parish, a district that teaches 27,851 students overall.

On demographics, St. John Elementary School logs that 53% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 31% Black, 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Calcasieu Parish as a whole is about 66% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, St. John Elementary School reports 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting St. John Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 66% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, St. John Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.1%, the actual is 43.7%, a residual of +6.6 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Calcasieu Parish shows median household earnings sit near $67,564, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Calcasieu Parish runs 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,278 students), of which St. John Elementary School is one.

Alfred M. Barbe High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), St. John Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 42.1%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 19%: 825 students in 2018 compared to 670 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 58% to 53%. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

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