Public school / Primary
Northwestern Elementary School
Zachary, Louisiana
- NCES ID
- 220003900405
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Northwestern Elementary School is a public primary school in Zachary, Louisiana, run by Zachary Community School District. It enrols 417 students — the 48454th largest of 1,374 public schools in Louisiana.
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
417
Teachers
22.0
Students per teacher
19.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
60.4%
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.
Within Zachary Community School District
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.
- 1Zachary High School1,765 students
- 2Northwestern Middle School912 students
- 3Copper Mill Elementary/Middle School889 students
- 4Rollins Place Elementary847 students
- 5Zachary Elementary School821 students
- 6Northwestern Elementary School417 students
- 7Zachary Early Learning Center202 students
- Enrollment−14.7%
- Teachers−18.5%
- Students per teacher+8.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−9.9%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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