Best Public Schools in Zip Code 71051

Summary:

With only one school in the 71051 zip code, Elm Grove Elementary School is the sole focus of this analysis. The school serves students from pre-kindergarten through 5th grade and is located within the Bossier Parish district.

Elm Grove Elementary School consistently outperforms the Bossier Parish and Louisiana averages on LEAP tests, particularly in Mathematics, where its proficiency rate was 71% in the 2024-2025 school year compared to the state average of 60%. The school has maintained a 3-star rating from SchoolDigger over the past three school years and has improved its ranking from 350 out of 730 schools in 2022-2023 to 244 out of 666 schools in 2024-2025, indicating a positive trajectory in its relative performance.

While Elm Grove Elementary School serves a population with a relatively high percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch (48.52% in 2023-2024), the school's student-teacher ratio of 13.6 is slightly lower than the state average, suggesting a potentially more favorable learning environment. However, the school's chronic absenteeism rate of 24.6% in 2023-2024 is higher than the state's target of 20% or less, which is an area for potential improvement.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2025)				Ranking (2024)				LEAP Mathematics (2025)				LEAP English Language Arts (2025)			Per Pupil Expenditures (2024)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	SchoolDigger Rating (2025)	Average Standard Score (2024)	Statewide Rank (2024)	State Percentile (2024)	Rank Change from Previous Year	LEAP Mathematics 3rd Grade	LEAP Mathematics 4th Grade	LEAP Mathematics 5th Grade	LEAP Mathematics All Grades	LEAP English Language Arts 3rd Grade	LEAP English Language Arts 4th Grade	LEAP English Language Arts All Grades	Total
Elm Grove Elementary School	Public	PK, KG-5	1541 Old Highway 71	Elm Grove	71051	Bossier Parish	Bossier Parish	No	No	No	Yes	(318) 549-6500	332	27	12.2	51.8%	241 (72.6%)	38 (11.4%)	30 (9.0%)	2 (0.6%)	0 (0.0%)	5 (1.5%)	16 (4.8%)	67	244^th of 666 public elementary schools	63.4%		59	297^th of 675 public elementary schools	56.0%	53	67.0	76.0	69.0	71.0	69.0	74.0	73.0	$16,815

Cities Near Zip Code 71051

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Elm Grove	3.36 mi	1	96^th
Bossier City	9.87 mi	20	168^th
Haughton	11.18 mi	5	73^rd
Shreveport	12.49 mi	59	219^th
Doyline	13.12 mi	1

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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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