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Public school / Primary

Columbia Elementary School

Columbia, Louisiana

NCES ID
220036000284
District
Caldwell Parish
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Columbia Elementary School is a public primary school in Columbia, Louisiana, run by Caldwell Parish. It enrols 247 students — the 72635th largest of 1,374 public schools in Louisiana.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

247students

72635th nationally, tied with 121

Teachers

16.0FTE

73651st nationally, tied with 1,867

Students per teacher

15.4students

51310th nationally, tied with 952

Free or reduced-price lunch

57.9%percent

42567th nationally, tied with 102

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Caldwell Parish

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Caldwell Parish High School441 students
  2. 2Caldwell Parish Junior High School362 students
  3. 3Grayson Elementary School292 students
  4. 4Columbia Elementary School247 students
  5. 5Union Central Elementary School160 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Louisiana median across 1,374 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−49.5%
  • Teachers−40.7%
  • Students per teacher−12.5%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−13.6%
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Where this sits

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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.