Bayou L'Ourse Primary School

Bayou L'Ourse Primary School is an elementary campus of minimally staffed scale in Morgan City, Louisiana, part of Assumption Parish, instructing 150 students in grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 67% below the state mean of about 453.

Assumption Parish runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 2,701 students. Bayou L'Ourse Primary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Bayou L'Ourse Primary School shows that White students make up the majority at 67%. The remainder is composed of 20% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Black. Compared to Assumption Parish overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Bayou L'Ourse Primary School has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. About 65% 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 demographically-adjusted basis, Bayou L'Ourse Primary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.8%, the actual is 29.3%, a residual of -8.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Assumption Parish indicate median household income runs about $51,423, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Assumption Parish runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,701 students), of which Bayou L'Ourse Primary School is one.

The closest other public school is J.S. Aucoin Elementary School, roughly 3.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Bayou L'Ourse Primary School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Looking at the recent track record. Bayou L'Ourse Primary School's enrollment has increased 6% since 2018, when it stood at 142 (now 150). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 15% to 20%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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