Summer Grove Elementary School

Located at 2955 Bert Kouns Industrial Loop, in Shreveport, Louisiana, Summer Grove Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school that teaches 403 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Caddo Parish.

Caddo Parish runs 57 schools in total, collectively educating 32,649 students. Summer Grove Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Summer Grove Elementary School lists that 90% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 3% White, 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 49% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Caddo Parish's rate of about 68%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Summer Grove Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 12.3%.

Zooming out to the county, Caddo Parish reports that median household income runs about $50,705, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 18% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Caddo Parish runs 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,851 students), of which Summer Grove Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Southwood High School, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Summer Grove Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Summer Grove Elementary School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 14.4%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 37%: 636 students in 2018 compared to 403 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

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