Enrollment
300
Elementary
DISTRICT 395 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CALCASIEU PARISH·NCES 220033000224
T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School
2711 Common Street, Lake Charles, LA 70601 · (337) 217-4680 · Calcasieu Parish
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL300 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 99% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
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
18.8:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
45 students
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 70%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 52 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 51 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 52 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (52) is 11% larger than its 5th grade class (47).
Student demographics
52%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
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LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
94.0%
LA avg 41.8%
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 94 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level. The Louisiana average is about 42 of 100.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 94.0% | N/A |
| 2024-25 | 94.0% | 90.0% |
| 2023-24 | 94.0% | 90.0% |
| 2022-23 | N/A | 92.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of LA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
90.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
73.6%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 90% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 74% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 16 points, placing it in Louisiana's top 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 T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School
T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School's state test result (90.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School this school | 300 | 15.0% | 90.0% |
| Southeastern LA University Lab School Hammond | 257 | 19.8% | 58.3% |
| South Highlands Elementary Magnet School Shreveport | 504 | 11.7% | 89.8% |
| Eden Gardens Fundamental Elementary School Shreveport | 495 | 17.2% | 85.2% |
| Mayfair Laboratory School Baton Rouge | 480 | 24.4% | 87.7% |
| Fairfield Magnet School Shreveport | 512 | 18.6% | 80.3% |
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 T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Calcasieu Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 90.0% | #3 of 583 | #1 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 90.0% | #7 of 582 ▼ 1 | #1 of 31 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 94.0% | #1 of 587 ▲ 2 | #1 of 31 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 300 | #540 of 714 | #23 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.8:1 | #633 of 655 | #31 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.0% | #298 of 655 | #11 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.0% | #703 of 705 | #34 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.7% | #192 of 197 | N/A |
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
300
+53 (+21%) vs 2020
-6% since 1990-91, when it was 319
Student : Teacher
18.8:1
was 15.4:1
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 | 300 | 16 | 18.8:1 | 15% (45) |
| 2023-24 | 302 | 16.2 | 18.6:1 | 19% (56) |
| 2022-23 | 300 | 16.5 | 18.2:1 | 20% (61) |
| 2020-21 | 247 | 16 | 15.4:1 | 19% (46) |
| 2017-18 | 298 | 16 | 18.6:1 | 15% (46) |
| 2015-16 | 306 | 21 | 14.6:1 | 22% (67) |
| 2010-11 | 301 | 16 | 18.8:1 | 26% (78) |
| 2000-01 | 299 | 16 | 18.7:1 | 25% (74) |
| 1990-91 | 319 | 15 | 21.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (298 to 300); teachers unchanged (16 to 16).
About T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School
T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School is a small elementary school located in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Its 300 students are spread across kindergarten through 5. The typical figure for elementary schools in Louisiana is about 453 students.
A total of 56 schools make up Calcasieu Parish, with 27,851 students enrolled.
White students are the majority at T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School, with 67% of enrollment. The school is also 14% Black, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial, and 5% Hispanic. That is close to the 66% White share among all Calcasieu Parish residents. T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School's diversity index is 52%, against a US figure of 70%.
The school reports 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 18.8 students per teacher. That is 4.8 students per teacher above the 14.0:1 average for elementary schools in Louisiana. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 15% of students. The 59% average for public schools in Calcasieu Parish is 44 points higher.
allk12 grades T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School an A+. The grade compares the school only with Louisiana public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On BeatsExpectations, which compares test results with what a school's student poverty level would predict, T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School ranks in the top 10% in Louisiana. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 90.0%, against a prediction of 73.6%.
In Calcasieu Parish (population about 207,088), the median household income is $67,564, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 13% of people live in poverty. T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School is one of 61 public schools in the county.
LaGrange High School is located about 0.7 miles from T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School is 1st of 8 on proficiency.
Its location is classified as City: Small by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 53 more students in 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio rising from 15.4:1 to 18.8:1.
Community posts for T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School can cover enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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
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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
- LaGrange High School0.7 mi · 881
- Barbe Elementary School0.8 mi · 179
- Henry Heights Elementary School1.0 mi · 315
- College Oaks Elementary School1.1 mi · 278
- Oak Park Elementary School1.2 mi · 259
- Pearl Watson Elementary School1.4 mi · 219
Frequently asked questions
About T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet SchoolHow many students attend T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School?
T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School enrolls approximately 300 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School serve?
T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School is approximately 18.8:1 (16 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School?
At T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School, the student body is approximately 67% White, 5% Hispanic, 14% Black, 7% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School public or private?
T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Calcasieu Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.