The top reported proficiency rate is 24% in English language arts. The lowest is 10% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Mooringsport Elementary School
Mooringsport Elementary School serves students from prekindergarten through fifth grade in the small, rural town of Mooringsport, about eighteen miles northwest of Shreveport in Caddo Parish. The school is a regular public school and sits within the Caddo Parish School District. For a family looking at this part of northwestern Louisiana, the school is the elementary option for a community that is sparsely populated and quiet, with a historic residential character and limited commercial activity. The town itself has seen slow population decline over recent decades, and median household income in the area is low.
The student body at Mooringsport Elementary is predominantly white, with a notable share of students who are Black and a smaller share who are Hispanic. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The school does not report data on students with disabilities or English learners, so a parent wanting to understand the full range of support services available for those populations would need to ask the school directly.
On the state’s LEAP 2025 assessments, which are administered to students in grades three through eight, the school’s proficiency rates across subjects fall below what many families would hope to see. In English language arts, roughly a quarter of tested students scored at the proficient level or above. In math, the share was slightly lower. In science, about one in ten students reached proficiency, and in social studies, a similar figure. These results represent a single year’s snapshot, so there is no trend information available to say whether performance is moving in a particular direction. Louisiana introduced a cut-score change for the social studies assessment in 2025, which means that social studies results from this year are not directly comparable to any prior year. The school did have full participation in testing, so the results reflect nearly every enrolled student in the tested grades.
Because the school serves only elementary grades, there is no graduation rate to report, and no data on chronic absenteeism was provided. The comparison tool available for the district level could not produce a meaningful comparison for Mooringsport Elementary because there were not enough comparable schools in Caddo Parish to form a cohort. That leaves the reader without a direct local benchmark, which is an important gap. A parent might want to ask the school or district how this school’s performance compares to other elementary schools in the parish, especially those with a similar student demographic.
The school itself is the public elementary option for the town and the surrounding area. Mooringsport has no traditional downtown or obvious walkable core. Families drive to and from school. The town’s main civic anchor is Caddo Lake, which offers recreational opportunities, and the historic Caddo Lake Drawbridge is a local landmark. For broader services, including shopping, medical care, or more extensive school programming, residents travel into Shreveport.
No recent district-level changes in Caddo Parish were reported in available public sources, so a parent looking for information about new programs, facility investments, or boundary adjustments would need to contact the district office directly. Mooringsport Elementary appears to be the neighborhood school for a small, economically modest rural community. The academic results are soft across all tested subjects, and the lack of comparative data within the parish makes it harder to gauge how that performance stacks up against other local options. For a family weighing this school, the main questions are about academic support and intervention: how the school addresses low proficiency rates, what programs exist for students who are behind grade level, and what the school’s own internal data show about student growth from year to year.
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