Werner Park Elementary School

Set in Shreveport, Louisiana, Werner Park Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary campus, overseen by Caddo Parish. It hosts 262 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 42% below the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 453 students.

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

On demographics, Werner Park Elementary School records that nearly all students (91%) are Black. The remainder looks like 5% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Caddo Parish as a whole is about 49% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Caddo Parish (around 68%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Werner Park Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.4%; this one delivers 11.0%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Caddo Parish indicate the typical household earns roughly $50,705 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 18%. Werner Park Elementary School is one of 61 public schools in Caddo Parish (combined enrollment of about 33,851 students).

Caddo Heights Math/Science Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Werner Park Elementary School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 17.7%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at Werner Park Elementary School has shrank 24%, going from 343 students in 2018 to 262 in 2024. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2024.

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