Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5
Prien Lake Elementary School, Lake Charles, LA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 639
- Teachers (FTE)
- 49.0
- Students per teacher
- 13.0
- Grades
- PK to 5
This school's ratio is 0.9 higher than the district figure of 12.1. The Louisiana average across schools is 13.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 3741 Nelson Road, Lake Charles, LA 70605
- Phone
- (337)217-4910
- District
- Calcasieu Parish
- County
- Calcasieu Parish
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Small
- NCES school ID
- 220033000259
School meals
- Free lunch
- 232
- Reduced-price lunch
- 31
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 26341.2% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 211Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- No
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 Calcasieu Parish
- Moss Bluff Elementary School 969 students
- A. A. Nelson Elementary School 736 students
- St. John Elementary School 670 students
- Gillis Elementary School 650 students
- Maplewood Elementary 640 students
- E. K. Key Elementary School 546 students
- J. I. Watson Elementary School 531 students
- Frasch Elementary School 522 students
- Fairview Elementary School 518 students
- Combre-Fondel Elementary School 426 students
- Westwood Elementary School 412 students
- Cypress Cove Elementary School 399 students
Elementary schools elsewhere in Lake Charles
- Lake Charles Charter Academy Lake Charles Charter Academy Foundation Inc.
- Southwest Louisiana Charter Academy Southwest Louisiana Charter Academy
- Grand Lake Elementary Cameron Parish
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.