Cecil Picard Elementary School at Maurice

Cecil Picard Elementary School at Maurice, an average-sized K-5 school in Maurice, Louisiana, one of the schools within Vermilion Parish, instructs 592 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 453 students per school, that is 31% above typical.

Vermilion Parish runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 8,433 students. Cecil Picard Elementary School at Maurice is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Cecil Picard Elementary School at Maurice records that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 18% Black, 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 78%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Cecil Picard Elementary School at Maurice 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 49.7%; Cecil Picard Elementary School at Maurice posts 64.7%, +15.0 points above that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Vermilion Parish put median household income runs about $55,707, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Vermilion Parish runs 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,278 students), of which Cecil Picard Elementary School at Maurice is one.

Milton Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Cecil Picard Elementary School at Maurice. On composite proficiency, Cecil Picard Elementary School at Maurice comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 46.6%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 18%: 721 students in 2018 compared to 592 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 84% to 68% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 20.1:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

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