W.T. Lewis Elementary School

Located at 4701 Modica Lott Road, in Bossier City, Louisiana, W.T. Lewis Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary campus that serves 558 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Bossier Parish. Enrollment runs roughly 23% bigger than the state mean of about 453.

Bossier Parish runs 34 schools in total, collectively educating 22,233 students. W.T. Lewis Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, W.T. Lewis Elementary School lists that 48% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 31% Black, 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 63% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, W.T. Lewis Elementary School logs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.0:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Bossier Parish runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, W.T. Lewis Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.1%, the actual is 43.0%, a residual of -10.1 points.

In the broader community, Bossier Parish reports that the typical household earns roughly $69,617 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bossier Parish's 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,233 students), W.T. Lewis Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Johnny Gray Jones Youth Shelter & Detention Center, roughly 1.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), W.T. Lewis Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 34.6%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at W.T. Lewis Elementary School has ticked up 15%, going from 484 students in 2018 to 558 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 64% to 48% across the same window.

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