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Best kept secret at Acadian Elementary School?
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Enrollment
654
Elementary
DISTRICT 424 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TERREBONNE PARISH·NCES 220174001334
Acadian Elementary School
1020 Saadi Street, Houma, LA 70363 · (985) 303-4801 · Terrebonne Parish
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL654 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 92% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Louisiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.8:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
561 students
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 70%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 79 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 102 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 133 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 115 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 121 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 104 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (102) is about the same size as its 4th grade class (104).
Student demographics
75%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 65% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
50.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +13.0pp since 2022
Math
61.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +38.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are up about 13 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 38 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 50.0% | 61.0% |
| 2024-25 | 51.0% | 55.0% |
| 2023-24 | 52.0% | 45.0% |
| 2022-23 | 37.0% | 23.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of LA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
43.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.5%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 23% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in Louisiana's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Acadian Elementary School
Acadian Elementary School's state test result (43.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acadian Elementary School this school | 654 | 85.8% | 43.2% |
| Independence Leadership Academy Independence | 548 | 87.8% | 12.3% |
| Denham Springs Elementary School Denham Springs | 678 | 79.2% | 48.0% |
| South Fork Elementary School Denham Springs | 685 | 86.0% | 28.3% |
| Cankton Elementary School Cankton | 504 | 82.9% | 28.3% |
| Ossun Elementary School Lafayette | 498 | 79.3% | 38.5% |
Matched among Louisiana elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Acadian Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Terrebonne Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.2% | #184 of 583 | #7 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.0% | #56 of 582 ▲ 33 | #6 of 18 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #198 of 587 ▼ 11 | #8 of 18 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +25.5pp | #2 of 540 | #1 of 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 654 | #103 of 714 | #2 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #386 of 655 | #3 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.7% | #2 of 655 | #2 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.8% | #189 of 705 | #6 of 18 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.7% | #253 of 436 | #8 of 12 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
654
-15 (-2%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 803
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 18.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 654 | 47.5 | 13.8:1 | 86% (561) |
| 2023-24 | 627 | 38.5 | 16.3:1 | 73% (456) |
| 2022-23 | 617 | 32.4 | 19.1:1 | 75% (461) |
| 2020-21 | 669 | 37 | 18.1:1 | 64% (431) |
| 2017-18 | 758 | 36.1 | 21.0:1 | 57% (430) |
| 2015-16 | 783 | N/A | N/A | 86% (674) |
| 2010-11 | 852 | 59 | 14.4:1 | 78% (664) |
| 2000-01 | 744 | 55 | 13.5:1 | 70% (522) |
| 1990-91 | 803 | 44 | 18.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Acadian Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (758 to 654); teachers up 32% (36.1 to 47.5).
About Acadian Elementary School
Acadian Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school based in Houma, Louisiana. Enrollment totals 654 students across pre-K through 4. Across elementary schools in Louisiana, the average enrollment is about 453.
Terrebonne Parish runs Acadian Elementary School along with 29 other schools, enrolling 15,168 students in total.
Black students make up 33% of enrollment at Acadian Elementary School, the largest share of any group. The remaining shares are 27% White, 24% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 7% Native American. Census estimates put the Black share of Terrebonne Parish's population at about 19%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 75%.
The school has 47.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 13.8 students per teacher. The ratio is within a point of the 14.0:1 average for elementary schools in Louisiana. The school reported 86% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Terrebonne Parish is 73%.
Acadian Elementary School holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 92% of Louisiana public elementary schools.
Acadian Elementary School outperforms its prediction by 20.6 points. The model expects 22.5% for a school with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Louisiana; the school's rate is 43.2%.
For the population of Terrebonne Parish, the median household earns about $64,836 a year, about 19% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 12%. Acadian Elementary School shares Terrebonne Parish with 31 other public schools.
School for Exceptional Children, about 0.6 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Acadian Elementary School ranks 2nd of 7 on average proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Small, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 669 in 2020-21 and 654 in 2024-25. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 18.1:1 to 13.8:1.
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Terrebonne Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
106,186
Census ACS
Median income
$64,836
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
32
15,201 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Terrebonne Parish
- Terrebonne High SchoolHigh · 1,346 students
- H. L. Bourgeois High SchoolHigh · 1,289 students
- South Terrebonne High SchoolHigh · 868 students
- Ellender Memorial High SchoolHigh · 819 students
- Mulberry Elementary SchoolElementary · 789 students
- Houma Junior High SchoolMiddle · 673 students
Other schools in Houma
- Terrebonne High SchoolHigh · 1,346 students
- Ellender Memorial High SchoolHigh · 819 students
- Mulberry Elementary SchoolElementary · 789 students
- Houma Junior High SchoolMiddle · 673 students
- Coteau-Bayou Blue Elementary SchoolElementary · 627 students
- Evergreen Junior High SchoolMiddle · 622 students
Other Acadian Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Acadian Elementary. Acadian Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Acadian ElementaryAlexandria, LA · 270 students
Nearby schools
- School for Exceptional Children0.6 mi · 23
- Honduras Elementary School0.6 mi · 263
- Grand Caillou Elementary School1.2 mi · 360
- Upper Little Caillou Elementary School1.4 mi · 342
- Legion Park Elementary School1.5 mi · 300
- Oaklawn Middle School1.7 mi · 596
Frequently asked questions
About Acadian Elementary SchoolHow large is Acadian Elementary School?
Acadian Elementary School enrolls approximately 654 students in grades PK-04.
Is Acadian Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Acadian Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-04.
How many teachers does Acadian Elementary School have?
Acadian Elementary School employs 48 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Acadian Elementary School?
Student demographics at Acadian Elementary School are roughly 27% White, 24% Hispanic, 33% Black, 0% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Acadian Elementary School public or private?
Acadian Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Terrebonne Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.