Acadian Elementary School

Acadian Elementary School is an elementary school of medium-sized scale in Houma, Louisiana, one of the schools within Terrebonne Parish, works with 654 students in grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 44% bigger than the state mean of about 453.

Terrebonne Parish comprises 30 schools with combined enrollment of 15,168 students; Acadian Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Acadian Elementary School shows that 33% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 27% White, 24% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 7% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 19% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Acadian Elementary School lists 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Terrebonne Parish runs at roughly 73%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Acadian Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Louisiana schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 22.8%; actual is 41.0%, +18.2 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Terrebonne Parish indicate median household earnings sit near $64,836, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Terrebonne Parish's 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,201 students), Acadian Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: School for Exceptional Children, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Acadian Elementary School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.6%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Acadian Elementary School has contracted 14%, going from 758 students in 2018 to 654 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 13% to 24%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.0:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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