Sunset Acres Elementary School

Located at 6514 West Canal Boulevard, in Shreveport, Louisiana, Sunset Acres Elementary School is a close-knit elementary-level community that instructs 222 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Caddo Parish. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Sunset Acres Elementary School sits 51% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Caddo Parish, which oversees 57 schools and 32,649 students, Sunset Acres Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Sunset Acres Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (93%). Beyond that, the school logs 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 49% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Sunset Acres Elementary School has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Sunset Acres Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Caddo Parish runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sunset Acres Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.3%, the actual is 8.5%, a residual of -12.8 points.

In the area at large, census data for Caddo Parish shows median household income runs about $50,705, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 18%. Sunset Acres Elementary School is one of 61 public schools in Caddo Parish (combined enrollment of about 33,851 students).

The closest other public school is Caddo Middle Career and Technology School, roughly 1.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sunset Acres Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sunset Acres Elementary School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 10.4%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 6-year window. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at Sunset Acres Elementary School has decreased 16%, going from 264 students in 2018 to 222 in 2024. Black enrollment moved from 97% to 93% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.

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