Cypress Cove Elementary School, Slidell LA

Original Research by School Decision on Cypress Cove Elementary School

Cypress Cove Elementary School serves children from pre-kindergarten through first grade in Slidell, a suburban city in St. Tammany Parish. Because the school covers only the earliest primary years, most of the metrics that parents typically consult for older students — state test scores, graduation rates, chronic absenteeism data — simply do not apply. The school has no results on Louisiana’s LEAP assessments because those exams begin in third grade, and no high school outcomes exist for obvious reasons. A parent looking for academic benchmarks will need to rely on other sources, such as classroom observation or readiness assessments, rather than standardized proficiency rates.

The student body draws from Slidell’s residential neighborhoods and is moderately diverse. White students make up the majority, with Black and Hispanic students each representing roughly one in five children. A small Asian population and a slightly larger group of multiracial students round out the enrollment. About half the students qualify for free or reduced-price meals, indicating that economic need is present but not overwhelming. Total enrollment — spread across pre-K, kindergarten, and first grade — is sizable for a school serving only those three grades, suggesting that Cypress Cove is a central early-elementary option in its attendance zone.

Slidell itself is a classic Gulf Coast suburb, positioned at the junction of three interstates and roughly a commute’s distance from New Orleans. The city’s historic Olde Towne area offers a walkable core with a museum and train station, but most of the built environment is car-dependent, with residents relying on major arterials like Gause Boulevard. Major employers include a Textron defense plant and nearby NASA facilities, and the housing market reflects typical suburban patterns: home values and rents are moderate relative to national averages, though the cost of buying has edged downward recently while rents continue to climb. The city has grown steadily from its railroad-town origins, and while it faced serious hurricane damage in the past, it has rebuilt and expanded its park system.

Cypress Cove is a regular public school within the St. Tammany Parish Public Schools system. No recent district-level changes or strategic priorities were confirmed in publicly available sources, so parents may want to check directly with the district for any upcoming shifts in curriculum, staffing, or boundaries. The school’s website was not provided in the data, so information about specific early-childhood programs, pre-K eligibility, or enrichment offerings would need to be gathered separately.

For a family choosing where to send a young child, Cypress Cove represents a straightforward neighborhood school serving the first steps of education. There are no test-score comparisons to weigh and no secondary-level pathways to consider. The relevant questions are about the classroom environment, teacher experience, and what the early-learning approach looks like — details that are not captured in the available state dataset. The school’s grade band itself is the main reason for the absence of many typical performance measures, and that is a structural fact rather than a sign of any weakness. A parent’s evaluation would depend on what they can learn through a school visit, conversations with current families, and direct inquiry about curriculum and support services.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 342%

School 42% · district not reported

▲ 17 pts above state median

Grade 450%

School 50% · district not reported

▲ 22 pts above state median

Grade 540%

School 40% · district not reported

▲ 21 pts above state median

Grade 647%

School 47% · district not reported

▲ 27 pts above state median

Grade 741%

School 41% · district not reported

▲ 16 pts above state median

Grade 826%

School 26% · district not reported

▲ 11 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 353%

School 53% · district not reported

▲ 23 pts above state median

Grade 453%

School 53% · district not reported

▲ 22 pts above state median

Grade 551%

School 51% · district not reported

▲ 22 pts above state median

Grade 654%

School 54% · district not reported

▲ 28 pts above state median

Grade 756%

School 56% · district not reported

▲ 24 pts above state median

Grade 853%

School 53% · district not reported

▲ 26 pts above state median

Science

Grade 326%

School 26% · district not reported

▲ 11 pts above state median

Grade 442%

School 42% · district not reported

▲ 22 pts above state median

Grade 549%

School 49% · district not reported

▲ 26 pts above state median

Grade 633%

School 33% · district not reported

▲ 12 pts above state median

Grade 745%

School 45% · district not reported

▲ 23 pts above state median

Grade 838%

School 38% · district not reported

▲ 23 pts above state median

Social studies

Grade 335%

School 35% · district not reported

▲ 21 pts above state median

Grade 441%

School 41% · district not reported

▲ 21 pts above state median

Grade 547%

School 47% · district not reported

▲ 24 pts above state median

Grade 634%

School 34% · district not reported

▲ 18 pts above state median

Grade 747%

School 47% · district not reported

▲ 23 pts above state median

Grade 848%

School 48% · district not reported

▲ 33 pts above state median

This schoolSt. Tammany Parish, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.