Southwest Louisiana's 15 private schools, side by side
Every school we list across the five parishes in one sortable table, with state enrollment, pre-K, classification, STO status and federal staffing.
5 approved schools report 300 or more K-12 students, and all but one are Catholic. 8 of the 13 approved schools are classified as accredited; the rest are non-accredited approved or provisionally accredited, and every one of them can take the account. Click a heading to sort.
| School | City | K-12 students | Pre-K | Classification | TDC 2024-25 | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Our Lady Queen of Heaven School | Lake Charles | 577 | 66 | Accredited | ✓ | 49.6 | 11.8 |
| St. Louis Catholic High School | Lake Charles | 486 | 0 | Accredited | ✓ | 36.3 | 15.2 |
| Bishop Noland Episcopal Day School | Lake Charles | 376 | 58 | Accredited | — | 36 | 10.1 |
| Immaculate Conception Cathedral School | Lake Charles | 335 | 36 | Accredited | ✓ | 29.3 | 12.0 |
| Hamilton Christian Academy | Calcasieu Parish | 300 | 47 | Non-Accredited | ✓ | — | — |
| St. Margaret Catholic School | Lake Charles | 247 | 67 | Accredited | ✓ | 28.3 | 8.7 |
| Life Christian Academy | Calcasieu Parish | 243 | 70 | Accredited | — | — | — |
| First Baptist Christian Academy | Lake Charles | 224 | 42 | Non-Accredited | — | 35 | 7.3 |
| Our Lady's School | Sulphur | 204 | 47 | Accredited | ✓ | 18.8 | 10.9 |
| Our Lady Immaculate Catholic School | Jennings | 166 | 41 | Accredited | ✓ | 14.9 | 11.3 |
| Cornerstone Christian Academy | DeRidder | 109 | 25 | Non-Accredited | ✓ | 11 | 10.6 |
| Little Learners Montessori School | Sulphur | 14 | 34 | Louisiana Montessori Provisionally Accredited | — | 4.5 | 1.3 |
| Indian Bible Academy | Elton | 10 | 0 | Non-Accredited | — | 1.1 | 10.0 |
| Covenant Grace Academy | Lake Charles | — | — | — | — | 9.4 | 7.7 |
| Liberty Baptist Academy | Oakdale | — | — | — | — | 4 | 7.8 |
Sources: LDOE 2025-26 BESE-approved nonpublic schools list (enrollment, classification), LDOE Tuition Donation Credit 2024-25 participating schools, NCES Private School Survey (teachers, ratio; 2023-24 or 2021-22). '—' means not reported. Click a column to sort.
Notes on the columns
K-12 and pre-K counts are what each school told the state for the 2025-26 approval list. The teacher and ratio columns come from the federal survey and are blank for schools that did not answer it. A check under TDC means the school appeared on the state's 2024-25 Tuition Donation Credit list, which is the gateway for STO scholarships. The two schools with no state classification are in the federal survey only; the account cannot pay their tuition.
Enrollment is not a quality score. In a small market it is mostly a guide to how many seats a school has and how likely a given grade is to be full.
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