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Southside Elementary School

Public Grades PK, KG-5
644th
SchoolDigger Rank ?
of 666 Louisiana Elementary Schools
Better than 3% of Louisiana elementary schools
Summary

Southside Elementary School is a public elementary school in Lake Providence, Louisiana, serving 383 students in grades PK-5. The school is part of the East Carroll Parish school district, which is ranked 100 out of 118 districts in the state and has a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger.

Southside Elementary School consistently performs below the state and district averages in both Mathematics and English Language Arts (ELA) proficiency across all grade levels. For example, in the 2024-2025 school year, the school's proficiency rates were 34% in Mathematics and 36% in ELA, compared to the state averages of 60% and 70%, respectively. The school also has a high chronic absenteeism rate, ranging from 19.1% to 28.1% over the past few years, which is significantly higher than the state average. Additionally, Southside Elementary School has a very high percentage of students from low-socioeconomic backgrounds, with 89.03% to 95.96% of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch.

The only nearby school included in the data is Oak Grove Elementary School, which is located in a different school district (West Carroll Parish) and performs significantly better than Southside Elementary School across various metrics, including academic proficiency and chronic absenteeism. This lack of comparable schools in the immediate vicinity makes it challenging to identify specific factors that may be contributing to Southside Elementary School's underperformance, though the high rates of chronic absenteeism and the large proportion of students from low-socioeconomic backgrounds may be contributing to the school's academic challenges.

359
Students ?
15.3
Student/teacher ratio ?
$19,225
Per pupil spending ?
96.9%
Free/discounted lunch ?
 1307 Gould Street
       Lake Providence, LA  71254-0128

(318) 559-0325

District: East Carroll Parish


Students who attend Southside Elementary School usually attend:

Middle:    Griffin Middle School Academy
High:    General Trass High School
Racial breakdown:

African American:
100.0%
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At a glance
▼ Ranking trend: Declining — 17th percentile in 2015 → 3rd in 2025
Worth a look
!Test scores below the Louisiana average (35% vs 65% meeting standards)
!In the lower quartile statewide (3rd percentile)
!Ranking has slipped — down 14 percentile points since 2015
Students meeting standards (2024-2025) ?
This school35%
District avg32%
Louisiana avg65%
644th of 666
Louisiana public elementary schools ?
Bottom 3%▼ down 13 pts since 2015
From bottom 17% (2015) to bottom 3% (2025)
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★★★★★
SchoolDigger rating ?
100th of 118East Carroll Parish among Louisiana districts
Statewide rank percentile over time (100 = the top-ranked school in the state; click a legend item to add a student group)
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All Students

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankLouisiana percentileRating
20257.6644 of 6663.3%☆☆☆☆☆
202416.4590 of 67512.6%★☆☆☆☆
202314.9654 of 73010.4%★☆☆☆☆
20224.7711 of 7272.2%☆☆☆☆☆
20212.0727 of 7290.3%☆☆☆☆☆
201918.1636 of 73113.0%★☆☆☆☆
201839.1428 of 72841.2%★★☆☆☆
201715.3662 of 73910.4%★☆☆☆☆
201637.8512 of 74231.0%★★☆☆☆
201521.2659 of 79216.8%★☆☆☆☆
201435.4544 of 77730.0%★★☆☆☆
201344.8454 of 77241.2%★★☆☆☆
201264.0302 of 76460.5%★★★☆☆
201150.9423 of 76644.8%★★☆☆☆
201058.7354 of 73651.9%★★★☆☆
200956.5369 of 73850.0%★★★☆☆
200868.3247 of 74366.8%★★★☆☆
200757.3343 of 72552.7%★★★☆☆

African American

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankLouisiana percentileRating
202514.6472 of 5015.8%☆☆☆☆☆
202424.6415 of 50918.5%★☆☆☆☆
202324.7472 of 57017.2%★☆☆☆☆
202210.8533 of 5625.2%☆☆☆☆☆
20214.2564 of 5640.0%☆☆☆☆☆
201929.9437 of 55921.8%★☆☆☆☆
201854.4252 of 54753.9%★★★☆☆

Female

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankLouisiana percentileRating
202510.3606 of 6334.3%☆☆☆☆☆
202418.8552 of 63513.1%★☆☆☆☆
202315.6642 of 7058.9%☆☆☆☆☆
20223.2692 of 7011.3%☆☆☆☆☆
20213.3700 of 7050.7%☆☆☆☆☆
201925.6572 of 68416.4%★☆☆☆☆

Low Socio Economic Status

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankLouisiana percentileRating
202510.1632 of 6614.4%☆☆☆☆☆
202420.6575 of 67414.7%★☆☆☆☆
202317.0642 of 72311.2%★☆☆☆☆
20225.7707 of 7242.3%☆☆☆☆☆
20212.4718 of 7190.1%☆☆☆☆☆
201921.1603 of 69713.5%★☆☆☆☆
201848.9383 of 68243.8%★★☆☆☆

Male

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankLouisiana percentileRating
20257.1625 of 6412.5%☆☆☆☆☆
202412.4597 of 6518.3%☆☆☆☆☆
202315.3632 of 71311.4%★☆☆☆☆
20229.1674 of 7125.3%☆☆☆☆☆
201913.0650 of 6966.6%☆☆☆☆☆
How student groups rank statewide ? (each group's percentile vs the same group at other schools — higher is better; the +/- beside each compares the group with this school's overall percentile)
African American (2025)6th percentile~ school
Low Socio Economic Status (2025)4th percentile~ school
Female (2025)4th percentile~ school
Male (2025)2nd percentile~ school
By subject vs Louisiana (2024-2025) ?
English Language Arts36%-34 vs state
Mathematics34%-26 vs state

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Students at Southside Elementary School are 100% African American.

Students who attend Southside Elementary School usually go on to attend:

Middle : Griffin Middle School Academy
High : General Trass High School

In the 2024-25 school year, 359 students attended Southside Elementary School.

Southside Elementary School ranks in the bottom 3.3% of Louisiana elementary schools.


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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Louisiana Dept of Education.

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