NCES CCD 2024-25 10 schools LA

Best-Resourced Schools in Leesville, LA

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10 public K-12 schools in Leesville from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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10
Schools
4,353
Students
52.8/100
Avg Resource Index
14.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Leesville has more public-school enrollment than 49% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Leesville sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

5 of Leesville's 10 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Leesville's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 93rd percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 21-point gap between North Polk Elementary School and West Leesville Elementary School measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 51%
School count
Top 41%
Resource Index average
93rd percentile
Teacher staffing
61st percentile

Leesville High School accounts for 17.2% of all Leesville public-school enrollment

That concentration means Leesville-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Leesville school enrollment varies 5.9× across entities

Leesville school enrollment ranges from 127 students (lowest) to 748 students (highest), a spread of 621 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Leesville operates one school district — a single-district system

Leesville's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Leesville student-teacher ratio is 14.5:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Leesville is typically wider than the Leesville-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. North Polk Elementary School 64
2. Pickering Elementary School 60
3. East Leesville Elementary School 58
4. Hicks High School 56
5. Vernon Middle School 55
6. Leesville Junior High School 53
7. Pickering High School 49
8. Leesville High School 46
9. Parkway Elementary School 44
10. West Leesville Elementary School 43

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Leesville

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Leesville Junior High School 69.8/100
  2. 2 West Leesville Elementary School 69.5/100
  3. 3 Parkway Elementary School 69.2/100
  4. 4 Leesville High School 68.1/100
  5. 5 East Leesville Elementary School 67.2/100

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Which Leesville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

North Polk Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Leesville schools in this federal-data comparison at 64/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Leesville, LA? ▼

Leesville has 10 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,353 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.5:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.