Broadmoor Elementary School

Set in Lafayette, Louisiana, Broadmoor Elementary School is a roomy primary school, run under Lafayette Parish. It works with 749 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 65% bigger than the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 453 students.

Lafayette Parish comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 29,396 students; Broadmoor Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Broadmoor Elementary School records that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 21% Hispanic, 16% Black, 9% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Lafayette Parish as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Around 43% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Lafayette Parish's rate of about 59%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Broadmoor Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.3%, the actual is 64.0%, a residual of +10.7 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Lafayette Parish put the typical household earns roughly $67,451 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Lafayette Parish runs 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,903 students), of which Broadmoor Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Edgar Martin Middle School, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Broadmoor Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 46.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Broadmoor Elementary School has grew 15%, going from 649 students in 2018 to 749 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 61% to 50% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.

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