Breaux Bridge Elementary School

Breaux Bridge Elementary School is an elementary school of intimate scale in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, part of St. Martin Parish, teacheing 322 students in grades 3 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 29% smaller than the state mean of about 453.

St. Martin Parish comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 6,680 students; Breaux Bridge Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Breaux Bridge Elementary School shows that the largest single group is Black at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 35% White, 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Breaux Bridge Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Breaux Bridge Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 18.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 20.7%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for St. Martin Parish put median household income runs about $55,960, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, St. Martin Parish runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,696 students), of which Breaux Bridge Elementary School is one.

Breaux Bridge Primary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Breaux Bridge Elementary School comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 32.2%.

Breaux Bridge Elementary School operates from a town-based location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Breaux Bridge Elementary School has ticked down 33%, going from 481 students in 2018 to 322 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 61% to 53%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.

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