Church Point Elementary School

Located at 415 East Lougarre Street, in Church Point, Louisiana, Church Point Elementary School is a reasonably sized primary school that enrolls 491 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Acadia Parish.

Acadia Parish comprises 27 schools with combined enrollment of 9,043 students; Church Point Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Church Point Elementary School lists that the largest single group is Black at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder consists of 41% White, 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 16% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Acadia Parish (around 67%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Church Point Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.8%; this one delivers 30.7%.

Around the school, Acadia Parish reports that median household earnings sit near $45,562, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 20%. In all, Acadia Parish runs 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,043 students), of which Church Point Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Church Point High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Church Point Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 33.3%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Church Point Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 19% since 2018, when it stood at 607 (now 491). Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 in 2025.

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