Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5

Southside Elementary School, Lake Providence, LA

CEP schoolSouthside Elementary School is a public elementary school in Lake Providence, part of East Carroll Parish. It enrolled 359 students in 2024-25, with 15.6 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 359
Teachers (FTE): 23.0
Students per teacher: 15.6
Grades: PK to 5

This school's ratio is 3.5 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.

This school15.6

District12.1

Louisiana13.9

United States15.3

School details

Address: 1307 Gould Street, Lake Providence, LA 71254
Phone: (318)559-0325
District: East Carroll Parish
County: East Carroll Parish
Level: Elementary
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Rural: Remote
NCES school ID: 220057000457

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School meals

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

Free lunch: 342
Reduced-price lunch: 6
Free or reduced-price lunch: 34896.9% of enrollment.
Direct certification: 326Students 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.

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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.