Bayou Blue Upper Elementary School

Bayou Blue Upper Elementary School operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Houma, Louisiana, one of the schools within Lafourche Parish. Current enrollment sits at 427 students spanning grades 3 through 5.

Lafourche Parish comprises 30 schools with combined enrollment of 13,326 students; Bayou Blue Upper Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Bayou Blue Upper Elementary School reports that White students make up the majority at 60%. The remainder reads as 15% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 8% Black, 7% Native American. By comparison, Lafourche Parish as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Bayou Blue Upper Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bayou Blue Upper Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 46.7%.

In the broader community, census data for Lafourche Parish shows median household income runs about $63,135, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Lafourche Parish's 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,426 students), Bayou Blue Upper Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Bayou Blue Middle School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bayou Blue Upper Elementary School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 42.9%.

Bayou Blue Upper Elementary School operates from a suburban location.

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