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Enrollment
482
Elementary
DISTRICT 400 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RAPIDES PARISH·NCES 220129001563
Tioga Elementary School
4310 Pardue Road, Ball, LA 71405 · (318) 640-9494 · Rapides Parish
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL482 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 81% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
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
13.3:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
425 students
DISTRICT 80% · STATE 70%
Community
5
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 51 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 57 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 58 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 54 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 76 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 46 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 24% larger than its 6th grade class (46).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
50.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +0.0pp since 2022
Math
34.0%
LA avg 34.2% . -1.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2022, while math scores are down about 1 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 50.0% | 34.0% |
| 2024-25 | 51.0% | 37.0% |
| 2023-24 | 47.0% | 41.0% |
| 2022-23 | 50.0% | 35.0% |
% 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
42.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.8%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+21.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 21% 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 21 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 Tioga Elementary School
Tioga Elementary School's state test result (42.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tioga Elementary School this school | 482 | 88.2% | 42.2% |
| Provencal Elementary & Junior High School Provencal | 444 | 89.2% | 53.2% |
| Vidalia Lower Elementary School Vidalia | 415 | 85.1% | N/A |
| Ball Elementary School Ball | 387 | 84.2% | 46.7% |
| Springfield Elementary School Springfield | 569 | 82.8% | 34.7% |
| Cecilia Primary School Cecilia | 656 | 91.2% | N/A |
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 Tioga Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Rapides Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.2% | #195 of 583 | #12 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #298 of 582 ▼ 45 | #14 of 24 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #193 of 587 ▼ 11 | #12 of 24 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.5pp | #249 of 540 | #9 of 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 482 | #287 of 714 | #6 of 25 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #323 of 655 | #11 of 24 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.7% | #276 of 655 | #6 of 24 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.2% | #157 of 705 | #11 of 25 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.2% | #242 of 436 | #3 of 15 |
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
482
-29 (-6%) vs 2020
-7% since 1990-91, when it was 517
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 17.6:1
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 | 482 | 36.1 | 13.3:1 | 88% (425) |
| 2023-24 | 512 | 36.1 | 14.2:1 | 81% (413) |
| 2022-23 | 506 | 28.4 | 17.8:1 | 77% (392) |
| 2020-21 | 511 | 29 | 17.6:1 | 49% (249) |
| 2017-18 | 562 | 35 | 16.1:1 | 81% (455) |
| 2015-16 | 664 | 42 | 15.8:1 | 71% (474) |
| 2010-11 | 634 | 38 | 16.7:1 | 68% (428) |
| 2000-01 | 447 | 27 | 16.6:1 | 66% (297) |
| 1990-91 | 517 | 29 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Tioga Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (562 to 482); teachers up 3% (35 to 36.1).
About Tioga Elementary School
This page covers Tioga Elementary School, a medium-sized elementary school in Ball, Louisiana. The school's 482 students are in pre-K through 6.
Rapides Parish counts 21,340 students in its 43 schools, and Tioga Elementary School is one of them.
Tioga Elementary School's enrollment is 63% White. Other groups make up 24% Black, 6% Hispanic, and 6% multiracial. The county population is about 61% White, within a few points of the school. Tioga Elementary School has a diversity index of 54%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school reports 36.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 13.3 students per teacher. Across elementary schools in Louisiana, the average ratio is about 14.0:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 88% of students. It compares with 77% for public schools in Rapides Parish.
Measured against Louisiana public elementary schools, Tioga Elementary School receives an A-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Tioga Elementary School is in the top 10% of Louisiana schools on the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure. Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 20.8%. The school's actual rate is 42.2%, 21.4 points higher.
Rapides Parish census figures show that median household income is about $54,967, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Tioga Elementary School is among the 51 public schools in Rapides Parish.
The shortest distance from Tioga Elementary School to another public school is about 0.7 miles, to Tioga High School. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. By average proficiency, Tioga Elementary School is 4th among 6 schools close by.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Small. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment was 511 in 2020-21 and 482 in 2024-25, a decrease of 29 students. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 17.6:1; by 2024-25 it was 13.3:1.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss science fairs, picture day, and bus routes at Tioga Elementary School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Rapides Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
127,527
Census ACS
Median income
$54,967
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
51
21,481 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Rapides Parish
- Alexandria Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,475 students
- Pineville High SchoolHigh · 1,271 students
- Peabody Magnet High SchoolHigh · 1,071 students
- J.I. Barron Sr. Elementary SchoolElementary · 924 students
- Buckeye High SchoolHigh · 915 students
- Tioga High SchoolHigh · 881 students
Other schools in Ball
- Tioga High SchoolHigh · 881 students
- Ball Elementary SchoolElementary · 387 students
- Paradise Elementary SchoolElementary · 369 students
Other Tioga Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Tioga Elementary. Tioga Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Tioga Elementary SchoolBensenville, IL · 751 students
- TIOGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLTIOGA CENTER, NY · 323 students
Nearby schools
- Tioga High School0.7 mi · 881
- Tioga Junior High School0.8 mi · 415
- Paradise Elementary School1.0 mi · 369
- Pinecrest Supports & Services Center1.4 mi · 92
- Pineville Junior High School2.5 mi · 527
- Ball Elementary School2.8 mi · 387
Frequently asked questions
About Tioga Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Tioga Elementary School?
Tioga Elementary School enrolls approximately 482 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does Tioga Elementary School serve?
Tioga Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many teachers does Tioga Elementary School have?
Tioga Elementary School employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.3:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Tioga Elementary School?
At Tioga Elementary School, the student body is approximately 63% White, 6% Hispanic, 24% Black, 6% Two or more.
What district is Tioga Elementary School in?
Tioga Elementary School is part of Rapides Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.