Caneview Elementary School

As an average-sized elementary school in New Iberia, Louisiana, Caneview Elementary School educates 509 students from grades pre-K through 6, part of Iberia Parish.

Iberia Parish comprises 23 schools with combined enrollment of 11,037 students; Caneview Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Caneview Elementary School shows that 53% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 30% Black, 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Caneview Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Caneview Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Louisiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 30.7%; Caneview Elementary School posts 48.3%, +17.6 points above that line.

In the area at large, census data for Iberia Parish shows 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%. In all, Iberia Parish runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,111 students), of which Caneview Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Magnolia Elementary, roughly 2.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Caneview Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 33.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Caneview Elementary School has declined 4%, going from 531 students in 2018 to 509 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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