Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5

Pecan Grove Primary School, Gonzales, LA

CEP schoolPecan Grove Primary School is a public elementary school in Gonzales, part of Ascension Parish. It enrolled 508 students in 2024-25, with 10.6 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 508
Teachers (FTE): 48.0
Students per teacher: 10.6
Grades: PK to 5

This school's ratio is 2.9 lower than the district figure of 13.5. The Louisiana average across schools is 13.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school10.6

District13.5

Louisiana13.9

United States15.3

School details

Address: 1712 South Pecan Grove Avenue, Gonzales, LA 70737
Phone: (225)391-7450
District: Ascension Parish
County: Ascension Parish
Level: Elementary
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Suburb: Large
NCES school ID: 220009002081

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 326
Reduced-price lunch: 25
Free or reduced-price lunch: 35169.1% of enrollment.
Direct certification: 301Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision: Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other elementary schools in Ascension Parish

Lake Elementary School 1,096 students
Prairieville Primary School 865 students
Galvez Primary School 783 students
Oak Grove Primary School 725 students
Bluff Ridge Primary 677 students
Sugar Mill Primary 644 students
Sorrento Primary School 638 students
Central Primary School 626 students
Bullion Primary School 586 students
St. Amant Primary School 585 students
Lakeside Primary School 545 students
Dutchtown Primary School 541 students

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.