Belle Chasse Academy

Belle Chasse Academy is one of the large elementary campuss in Belle Chasse, Louisiana, overseen by Belle Chasse Academy, with 773 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 71% larger than the state mean of about 453.

Belle Chasse Academy is a school of Belle Chasse Academy, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Belle Chasse Academy logs that the largest single group is White at 34%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 30% Black, 20% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Plaquemines Parish runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Belle Chasse Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.6%, the actual is 58.0%, a residual of +7.4 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Plaquemines Parish shows median household income runs about $86,315, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Plaquemines Parish's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,283 students), Belle Chasse Academy is one campus in the mix.

Belle Chasse High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Belle Chasse Academy ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 21.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area. Belle Chasse Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Belle Chasse Academy's enrollment has fell 20% since 2018, when it stood at 966 (now 773). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.