Bayou Chicot Elementary School

Bayou Chicot Elementary School is an elementary campus of middle-of-the-pack scale in Ville Platte, Louisiana, one of the schools within Evangeline Parish, teacheing 661 students in grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 46% above the state mean of about 453.

Evangeline Parish runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 5,326 students. Bayou Chicot Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Bayou Chicot Elementary School logs that nearly all students (90%) are White. The remainder is composed of 6% Black, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 65%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Bayou Chicot Elementary School has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Bayou Chicot Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 62% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Evangeline Parish runs at roughly 72%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Bayou Chicot Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.4%; this one delivers 36.3%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Evangeline Parish) shows that median household earnings sit near $41,915, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 19%. Across Evangeline Parish's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,326 students), Bayou Chicot Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Pine Prairie High School, roughly 4.6 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bayou Chicot Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 29.1%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 10%: 735 students in 2018 compared to 661 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 24.5:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

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