Acadian Elementary

Acadian Elementary is one of the compact elementary schools in Alexandria, Louisiana, operated by Rapides Parish, with 270 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Acadian Elementary sits 40% below that benchmark.

Within Rapides Parish, which oversees 43 schools and 21,340 students, Acadian Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Acadian Elementary shows that 93% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest looks like 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Rapides Parish as a whole is about 31% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Acadian Elementary lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at Acadian Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Rapides Parish's rate of about 77%.

With demographic context factored in, Acadian Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 13.4%, the actual is 24.7%, a residual of +11.3 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Rapides Parish) logs that the typical household earns roughly $54,967 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Rapides Parish runs 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,481 students), of which Acadian Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Rapides Training Academy, around 1.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Acadian Elementary at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 38.3%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 10%: 299 students in 2018 compared to 270 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 98% to 93%. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

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