Belle Place Elementary School

Belle Place Elementary School, a small elementary school in New Iberia, Louisiana, part of Iberia Parish, caters to 377 students, covering grades pre-K through 6.

Within Iberia Parish, which oversees 23 schools and 11,037 students, Belle Place Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Belle Place Elementary School records that the largest single group is White at 55%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 34% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian, 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Iberia Parish as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, Belle Place Elementary School has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Iberia Parish runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Belle Place Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.2%, the actual is 37.0%, a residual of -4.2 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Iberia Parish put the typical household earns roughly $56,961 per year, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Across Iberia Parish's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,111 students), Belle Place Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Belle Place Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Belle Place Elementary School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 37.1%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Inside the community feed, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.