Public school
The Pines Head Start
Pineville, Louisiana
- NCES ID
- 220129002511
- District
- Rapides Parish
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
The Pines Head Start is a public school in Pineville, Louisiana, run by Rapides Parish. It enrols 64 students — the 90439th 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
64
Teachers
11.0
Students per teacher
5.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
82.8%
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 Rapides 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.
- 1Alexandria Senior High School1,482 students
- 2Pineville High School1,374 students
- 3Buckeye High School972 students
- 4Tioga High School963 students
- 5J.I. Barron Sr. Elementary School960 students
- 6Scott M. Brame Middle School794 students
- 7Peabody Magnet High School760 students
- 8Oak Hill High School759 students
- Enrollment−86.9%
- Teachers−59.3%
- Students per teacher−67.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+23.6%
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