Boothville-Venice Elementary School

Boothville-Venice Elementary School is one of the tight-knit primary schools in Boothville, Louisiana, one of the schools within Plaquemines Parish, with 270 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 40% below the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 453 students.

Plaquemines Parish comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 3,510 students; Boothville-Venice Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Boothville-Venice Elementary School logs that 45% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 26% Black, 14% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Plaquemines Parish as a whole is about 60% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Boothville-Venice Elementary School lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Plaquemines Parish's rate of about 61%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Boothville-Venice Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.1%; this one delivers 37.7%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Plaquemines Parish) logs that median household income runs about $86,315, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Plaquemines Parish runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,283 students), of which Boothville-Venice Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is South Plaquemines High School, roughly 10.2 miles away. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Boothville-Venice Elementary School at 1st of 4; the average score across the group is 26.3%.

Boothville-Venice Elementary School operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 31%: 393 students in 2018 compared to 270 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 6% to 10% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 26.2:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.