Public school / Primary
Prairie Elementary School
Lafayette, Louisiana
- NCES ID
- 220087000688
- District
- Lafayette Parish
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Prairie Elementary School is a public primary school in Lafayette, Louisiana, run by Lafayette Parish. It enrols 606 students — the 26296th 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
606
Teachers
41.0
Students per teacher
14.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
55.3%
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 Lafayette 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.
- 1Southside High School1,910 students
- 2Lafayette High School1,852 students
- 3Acadiana High School1,813 students
- 4David Thibodaux STEM Magnet Academy1,388 students
- 5Milton Elementary School1,332 students
- 6O. Comeaux High School1,098 students
- 7Carencro High School1,096 students
- 8L.J. Alleman Middle School952 students
- Enrollment+23.9%
- Teachers+51.9%
- Students per teacher−15.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−17.5%
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