The top reported proficiency rate is 62% in Math. The lowest is 28% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Bellaire Elementary School
Bellaire Elementary School is a regular public school in Bossier City, Louisiana, serving kindergarten through third grade. It is part of the Bossier Parish school district. Because it serves only early elementary grades, there is no graduation rate, no data on chronic absenteeism, and no high-school-level course access to report; that is a function of its grade band, not an indicator of the school’s quality.
The school sits in a city that is closely tied to Shreveport across the Red River. Bossier City grew from a cotton landing into a railroad and airbase town, and more recently into a hub for riverboat casino tourism, with three casino resorts and a horse-racing venue. Barksdale Air Force Base, headquarters of the 8th Air Force, is a major local employer, along with the casinos, the parish school system, and Bossier Parish Community College. The city’s built environment is flat and sprawling, suggesting a car-dependent layout typical of mid-sized Louisiana cities, and civic anchors include the Louisiana Boardwalk riverfront promenade, the Brookshire Grocery Arena, and Arthur Ray Teague Parkway along the Red River.
In terms of academic performance, Bellaire’s state assessment results are available for the 2024-25 school year, the only year of data on record for the school. In math, a majority of tested students met the state’s proficiency benchmark. In English language arts, about half did. In social studies, the proficient share was lower, and in science it was lower still. These are the results for a single cohort of third graders; students in kindergarten through second grade are not state-tested, so there is no way to gauge performance at those earlier levels from this data. The trend data contains only that one year, so there is no basis for saying whether performance has been improving or declining. A parent looking for year-over-year change will need future results to form that picture.
The student body is diverse. The largest racial group is white, followed by Black or African American students, and then smaller shares of Hispanic students, students identifying as two or more races, and Asian students. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating the school serves a population with significant economic need. Data on students with disabilities and English learners was not reported in the available records; a parent who wants to understand how the school supports those groups would need to ask the school directly.
Bellaire is a neighborhood elementary school in a community with an active casino-and-tourism economy, a major military base, and steady population growth since the mid-20th century. The school itself offers no high-school pathways or career programs because of its grade range. For a family with a child entering kindergarten through third grade in Bossier City, Bellaire provides a standard early-elementary setting. The mix of student backgrounds and income levels is typical of a public school in a mid-sized Louisiana city. The strongest result from the state tests is math, where a clear majority of third graders met the proficiency bar; in reading and social studies the results are mixed, and in science they are weaker, a pattern a parent may want to discuss with the school to understand the instructional approach in those subjects. There is no comparative positioning data available relative to other elementary schools in Bossier Parish because the comparison set is too small to compute a peer rank.
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