Enrollment
344
Elementary
DISTRICT 350 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAFOURCHE PARISH·NCES 220090000700
Chackbay Elementary School
450 HWY 20, Thibodaux, LA 70301 · (985) 633-2348 · Lafourche Parish
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL344 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 93% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Louisiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.8:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
42%
143 students
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 70%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 35 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 49 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 49 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 57 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (49) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (51).
Student demographics
26%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · STATE 65% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
70.0%
LA avg 41.8% . -2.0pp since 2022
Math
73.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +8.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 8 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 70.0% | 73.0% |
| 2024-25 | 67.0% | 69.0% |
| 2023-24 | 72.0% | 73.0% |
| 2022-23 | 72.0% | 65.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
65.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.5%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Louisiana's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Chackbay Elementary School
Chackbay Elementary School's state test result (65.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chackbay Elementary School this school | 344 | 41.6% | 65.7% |
| George Welch Elementary School West Monroe | 429 | 35.4% | 57.2% |
| Vincent Settlement Elementary School Sulphur | 284 | 40.5% | 73.5% |
| Caroline Dormon Junior High School Woodworth | 362 | 42.5% | 63.7% |
| L. Leo Judice Elementary School Scott | 371 | 44.5% | 66.8% |
| Meaux Elementary School Abbeville | 281 | 48.8% | 53.3% |
Matched among Louisiana elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Chackbay Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Lafourche Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.7% | #31 of 583 | #3 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #22 of 582 ▲ 8 | #2 of 14 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #38 of 587 ▲ 20 | #3 of 15 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.0pp | #186 of 540 | #7 of 14 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 344 | #480 of 714 | #12 of 20 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.1:1 | #414 of 655 | #5 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 26.4% | #513 of 655 | #16 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 41.6% | #660 of 705 | #19 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.8% | #341 of 436 | #11 of 15 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
344
-39 (-10%) vs 2020
+18% since 1990-91, when it was 291
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
was 16.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 344 | 24.4 | 14.1:1 | 42% (143) |
| 2023-24 | 362 | 27.9 | 13.0:1 | 40% (145) |
| 2022-23 | 391 | 22.9 | 17.1:1 | 34% (134) |
| 2020-21 | 383 | 23 | 16.6:1 | 36% (137) |
| 2017-18 | 369 | 21.7 | 17.0:1 | 43% (160) |
| 2015-16 | 360 | 33 | 10.9:1 | 46% (166) |
| 2010-11 | 492 | 32 | 15.4:1 | 46% (224) |
| 2000-01 | 301 | 26 | 11.6:1 | 43% (130) |
| 1990-91 | 291 | 18 | 16.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Chackbay Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (369 to 344); teachers up 12% (21.7 to 24.4).
About Chackbay Elementary School
Chackbay Elementary School is a small elementary school in Thibodaux, Louisiana. The school serves 344 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. The average among elementary schools in Louisiana is roughly 453 students; this school is 24% smaller than that.
Lafourche Parish has 30 schools and 13,326 students, and Chackbay Elementary School is one of those schools.
The student body at Chackbay Elementary School is 85% White. Beyond that, enrollment is 5% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian, and 2% Hispanic. The White share of the county population is lower, at 75%. Pick two students at random and there is a 26% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Chackbay Elementary School operates with 24.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 14.1:1. That is close to the 14.0:1 average for elementary schools in Louisiana. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at Chackbay Elementary School is 42%. The 63% average for public schools in Lafourche Parish is 21 points higher.
Measured against Louisiana public elementary schools, Chackbay Elementary School receives an A. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
A school with Chackbay Elementary School's lunch-eligibility share in Louisiana is predicted to score 54.5%. Chackbay Elementary School scores 65.7%, 11.2 points above that line.
Among Lafourche Parish residents, the median household income is $63,135, about 21% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 12%. Besides Chackbay Elementary School, Lafourche Parish has 31 other public schools.
Nearby, Bayou Boeuf Elementary School is about 0.8 miles away. Within five miles of Chackbay Elementary School, there are 2 other public schools. Chackbay Elementary School is 3rd of 6 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Under the NCES locale system, Chackbay Elementary School is Rural: Fringe.
Enrollment dropped 10% from its 2020-21 level of 383. Federal data show the ratio falling from 16.6:1 to 14.1:1.
Parents and students can post about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater at Chackbay Elementary School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Lafourche Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
96,252
Census ACS
Median income
$63,135
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
32
13,426 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lafourche Parish
- Central Lafourche High SchoolHigh · 1,307 students
- Thibodaux High SchoolHigh · 1,306 students
- South Lafourche High SchoolHigh · 990 students
- Thibodaux Middle SchoolMiddle · 592 students
- Thibodaux Elementary SchoolElementary · 575 students
- Bayou Community Academy Charter SchoolElementary · 499 students
Other schools in Thibodaux
- Thibodaux High SchoolHigh · 1,306 students
- Thibodaux Middle SchoolMiddle · 592 students
- Thibodaux Elementary SchoolElementary · 575 students
- Bayou Community Academy Charter SchoolElementary · 499 students
- Virtual Academy of LafourcheCombined · 477 students
- W.S. Lafargue Elementary SchoolElementary · 457 students
Nearby schools
- Bayou Boeuf Elementary School0.8 mi · 209
- Sixth Ward Middle School3.9 mi · 236
- Virtual Academy of Lafourche5.3 mi · 477
- Bayou Community Academy Charter School5.4 mi · 499
- Thibodaux Elementary School5.4 mi · 575
- The MAX Charter School5.4 mi · 100
Frequently asked questions
About Chackbay Elementary SchoolHow large is Chackbay Elementary School?
Chackbay Elementary School enrolls approximately 344 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Chackbay Elementary School serve?
Chackbay Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Chackbay Elementary School?
Approximately 14.1:1 students per teacher at Chackbay Elementary School.
How diverse is Chackbay Elementary School?
Chackbay Elementary School reports a student body of 85% White, 2% Hispanic, 5% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Chackbay Elementary School public or private?
Chackbay Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Lafourche Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.