Stockwell Place Elementary School

Located at 5801 Shed Road, in Bossier City, Louisiana, Stockwell Place Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary-level community that educates 496 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Bossier Parish.

Within Bossier Parish, which oversees 34 schools and 22,233 students, Stockwell Place Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Stockwell Place Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 27% Black, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 44% of students at Stockwell Place Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Bossier Parish (around 53%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Stockwell Place Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.6%, the actual is 66.7%, a residual of +14.1 points.

Across the wider county, Bossier Parish reports that the typical household earns roughly $69,617 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Bossier Parish runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,233 students), of which Stockwell Place Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Cope Middle School, around 1.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Stockwell Place Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Stockwell Place Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 28.4%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Stockwell Place Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 39% since 2018, when it stood at 808 (now 496). Over the same period, the White share declined from 64% to 54%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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