LOUISE CABANISS ACADEMY

LOUISE CABANISS ACADEMY operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas, one of the schools within MANSFIELD ISD. Current enrollment sits at 445 students spanning grades pre-K through 4.

Within MANSFIELD ISD, which oversees 47 schools and 35,354 students, LOUISE CABANISS ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, LOUISE CABANISS ACADEMY lists that 48% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 25% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 8% White, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 18% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, LOUISE CABANISS ACADEMY reports 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting LOUISE CABANISS ACADEMY tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 56% of students at LOUISE CABANISS ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LOUISE CABANISS ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.5%, the actual is 57.0%, a residual of +7.5 points.

In the broader community, Tarrant County reports that median household earnings sit near $84,207, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), LOUISE CABANISS ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

THELMA JONES EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LOUISE CABANISS ACADEMY at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 55.7%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LOUISE CABANISS ACADEMY has declined 24%, going from 582 students in 2018 to 445 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 40% to 48% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

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