Bayou Woods Elementary School

Bayou Woods Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary-level community in Slidell, Louisiana, operated by St. Tammany Parish. The school teaches 431 students in grades pre-K through 3.

Within St. Tammany Parish, which oversees 55 schools and 35,956 students, Bayou Woods Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bayou Woods Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is Black (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 25% White, 20% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, St. Tammany Parish as a whole is about 12% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Bayou Woods Elementary School reports 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. An estimated 71% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against St. Tammany Parish (around 44%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Bayou Woods Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.1%, the actual is 33.3%, a residual of +0.2 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for St. Tammany Parish put median household income runs about $81,202, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Bayou Woods Elementary School is one of 56 public schools in St. Tammany Parish (combined enrollment of about 36,212 students).

Nearest neighbor: Carolyn Park Middle, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bayou Woods Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 27.8%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 7%: 403 students in 2018 compared to 431 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 32% to 25% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

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