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Enrollment
793
Elementary
DISTRICT 584 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAFAYETTE PARISH·NCES 220087000694
Woodvale Elementary School
100 Leon Drive, Lafayette, LA 70503 · (337) 521-7830 · Lafayette Parish
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL793 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 98% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- ATest 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.
- AThree-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
15.3:1
52 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.7:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
432 students
DISTRICT 62% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 90 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 99 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 129 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 161 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 146 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 168 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (90) is 46% smaller than its 5th grade class (168).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · 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
68.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +6.0pp since 2022
Math
64.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +6.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 6 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 68.0% | 64.0% |
| 2024-25 | 67.0% | 63.0% |
| 2023-24 | 64.0% | 60.0% |
| 2022-23 | 62.0% | 58.0% |
% 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
60.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.1%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 45% 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 Woodvale Elementary School
Woodvale Elementary School's state test result (60.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodvale Elementary School this school | 793 | 54.5% | 60.8% |
| University Elementary School Shreveport | 837 | 55.1% | 33.5% |
| Lexington Elementary School Monroe | 547 | 52.8% | N/A |
| Sallie Humble Elementary School Monroe | 579 | 56.6% | 46.3% |
| Belle Chasse Elementary School Belle Chasse | 543 | 58.2% | 63.2% |
| Apollo Elementary School Bossier City | 756 | 61.1% | 36.3% |
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 Woodvale Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Lafayette Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.8% | #50 of 583 | #6 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.0% | #44 of 582 no change | #5 of 24 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.0% | #46 of 587 ▲ 11 | #4 of 24 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.0pp | #107 of 540 | #6 of 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 793 | #43 of 714 | #3 of 26 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #506 of 655 | #11 of 26 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.5% | #105 of 655 | #10 of 26 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 54.5% | #580 of 705 | #18 of 26 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +22.9% | #58 of 197 | #4 of 10 |
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
793
+108 (+16%) vs 2020
+6% since 1990-91, when it was 748
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 23.6:1
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 | 793 | 52 | 15.3:1 | 54% (432) |
| 2023-24 | 845 | 59.7 | 14.2:1 | 56% (477) |
| 2022-23 | 890 | 50.1 | 17.8:1 | 56% (499) |
| 2020-21 | 685 | 29 | 23.6:1 | 90% (614) |
| 2017-18 | 645 | 30 | 21.5:1 | 40% (256) |
| 2015-16 | 623 | 46 | 13.5:1 | 54% (334) |
| 2010-11 | 551 | 42 | 13.1:1 | 47% (261) |
| 2000-01 | 716 | 52 | 13.8:1 | 34% (242) |
| 1990-91 | 748 | 42 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Woodvale Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 23% (645 to 793); teachers up 73% (30 to 52).
About Woodvale Elementary School
Woodvale Elementary School is a large elementary school based in Lafayette, Louisiana. It has an enrollment of 793 students in pre-K through 5. On average, elementary schools in Louisiana enroll around 453, and this school is 75% bigger than that mark.
Woodvale Elementary School is one school in a 44-school district, Lafayette Parish, which enrolls 29,396 students.
Of every 100 students at Woodvale Elementary School, about 50 are White, the largest group. The remaining students are 33% Black, 7% Asian, 5% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. Census figures show Lafayette Parish is about 63% White. The diversity index for Woodvale Elementary School is 63%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its staff includes 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 15.3 students per teacher. The gap from the 14.0:1 average for elementary schools in Louisiana is 1.3 students per teacher. Roughly 54% of students at Woodvale Elementary School can receive free or reduced-price lunch.
Woodvale Elementary School earns an A+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 98% of Louisiana public elementary schools.
Woodvale Elementary School is a top-10% school in Louisiana on BeatsExpectations, beating its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results of 45.1% with an actual 60.8%.
For Lafayette Parish, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $67,451, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 35%, and roughly 13% of residents are in poverty. The county has 50 public schools and about 35,903 students.
Woodvale Elementary School is about 0.4 miles from L.J. Alleman Middle School, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Woodvale Elementary School is 2nd of 7 on proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is City: Mid-size: the school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The school's student count rose 16% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 23.6:1 to 15.3:1.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at Woodvale Elementary School. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Lafayette Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
247,997
Census ACS
Median income
$67,451
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
50
35,903 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lafayette Parish
- Southside High SchoolHigh · 1,833 students
- Lafayette High SchoolHigh · 1,720 students
- Acadiana High SchoolHigh · 1,652 students
- David Thibodaux STEM Magnet AcademyHigh · 1,362 students
- Milton Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,261 students
- Carencro High SchoolHigh · 1,116 students
Other schools in Lafayette
- Lafayette Renaissance Charter AcademyCombined · 2,177 students
- Lafayette High SchoolHigh · 1,720 students
- Acadiana High SchoolHigh · 1,652 students
- David Thibodaux STEM Magnet AcademyHigh · 1,362 students
- Milton Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,261 students
- Carencro High SchoolHigh · 1,116 students
Nearby schools
- L.J. Alleman Middle School0.4 mi · 890
- Lafayette High School1.1 mi · 1,720
- S.J. Montgomery Elementary School1.5 mi · 663
- Early College Academy1.5 mi · 257
- Edgar Martin Middle School1.8 mi · 641
- Broadmoor Elementary School1.9 mi · 749
Frequently asked questions
About Woodvale Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Woodvale Elementary School?
Woodvale Elementary School enrolls approximately 793 students in grades PK-05.
Is Woodvale Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Woodvale Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Woodvale Elementary School have?
Woodvale Elementary School employs 52 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.3:1.
How diverse is Woodvale Elementary School?
Woodvale Elementary School reports a student body of 50% White, 5% Hispanic, 33% Black, 7% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Woodvale Elementary School in?
Woodvale Elementary School is part of Lafayette Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.