T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School

T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School is one of the tight-knit K-5 schools in Lake Charles, Louisiana, one of the schools within Calcasieu Parish, with 300 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School sits 34% smaller than that benchmark.

Calcasieu Parish runs 56 schools in total, collectively educating 27,851 students. T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School shows that 67% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 14% Black, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. An estimated 15% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Calcasieu Parish runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School ranks in the top 10% of Louisiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 73.2%; T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School posts 91.0%, +17.8 points above that line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Calcasieu Parish) logs that median household income runs about $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. Across Calcasieu Parish's 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,278 students), T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LaGrange High School, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), T. S. Cooley Elementary Magnet School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 19.1%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 298 students in 2018 compared to 300 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 20% to 14% over that span.

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