Public school / Primary / Charter
Southwest Louisiana Charter Academy
Lake Charles, Louisiana
- NCES ID
- 220018902349
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Southwest Louisiana Charter Academy is a public primary school in Lake Charles, Louisiana, run by Southwest Louisiana Charter Academy. It enrols 741 students — the 17077th 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
741
Teachers
43.0
Students per teacher
17.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
41.3%
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 Southwest Louisiana Charter Academy
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+51.5%
- Teachers+59.3%
- Students per teacher−2.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−38.4%
Where this sits
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