Elementary · Louisiana
Southwest Louisiana Charter Academy
CharterFree meals for allSouthwest Louisiana Charter Academy, a public elementary school in Lake Charles, Louisiana: grades pre-k–8, 852 students, 15.1 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Southwest Louisiana Charter Academy.
Size and class size
Compared with elementary schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 852
- Teachers (FTE)
- 56.5
- Students per teacher
- 15.1
- Grades
- Pre-K–8
- Elementary
More students per teacher than 75% of elementary schools in Louisiana
Median 13.3 · 699 schools compared
More students per teacher than 56% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Larger than 95% of elementary schools in Louisiana
Median 429 · 700 schools compared
Larger than 96% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades Pre-K–8
- Type
- Charter school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Small city
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Southwest Louisiana Charter Academy.
Location
- Address
- 1700 East McNeese Street, Lake Charles, LA 70607
- Phone
- (337)475-7910
- City or town
- Lake Charles
- County
- Calcasieu Parish
Nearby elementary schools
The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-K–5 | 272 | 10.4 | |
| Pre-K–5 | 518 | 11.2 | |
| Pre-K–5 | 315 | 9.4 | |
| Pre-K–5 | 360 | 11.5 | |
Lake Charles Charter AcademyCharterFree meals for all | Pre-K–8 | 951 | 16.3 |
| Pre-K–5 | 308 | 10.1 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level.
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