NCES CCD 2024-25 12 schools LA

Best-Resourced Schools in Sulphur, LA

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

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12
Schools
6,415
Students
53/100
Avg Resource Index
13.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Sulphur has more public-school enrollment than 66% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Sulphur lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

8 of Sulphur's 12 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

Sulphur'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 17-point gap between Vincent Settlement Elementary School and Sulphur High 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 34%
School count
Top 31%
Resource Index average
93rd percentile
Teacher staffing
68th percentile

Sulphur High School accounts for 29.8% of all Sulphur public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Sulphur-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

Sulphur school enrollment varies 101× across entities

Sulphur school enrollment ranges from 19 students (lowest) to 1,911 students (highest), a spread of 1,892 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. 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

Sulphur operates one school district — a single-district system

Sulphur'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

Sulphur student-teacher ratio is 13.9:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Vincent Settlement Elementary School 63
2. Maplewood Middle School 59
3. Maplewood Elementary 58
4. Richard W. Vincent Elementary School 54
5. Leblanc Middle School 53
6. Frasch Elementary School 52
7. Cypress Cove Elementary School 52
8. W. T. Henning Elementary School 52
9. Jake Drost School for Exceptional Children 52
10. W. W. Lewis Middle School 49
11. Sulphur High School 46
12. E. K. Key Elementary School 46

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Sulphur

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 W. T. Henning Elementary School 60.4/100
  2. 2 Richard W. Vincent Elementary School 56.4/100
  3. 3 Maplewood Elementary 48.5/100
  4. 4 E. K. Key Elementary School 47.8/100
  5. 5 Maplewood Middle School 45.4/100

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Which Sulphur school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Vincent Settlement Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Sulphur schools in this federal-data comparison at 63/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Sulphur, LA? ▼

Sulphur has 12 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,415 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.9:1.

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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.