C.M. Washington Elementary School

As a moderately sized K-5 school in Thibodaux, Louisiana, C.M. Washington Elementary School caters to 392 students from grades 4 through 5, one of the schools within Lafourche Parish.

C.M. Washington Elementary School is one of 30 schools operated by Lafourche Parish, a district that teaches 13,326 students overall.

Looking at the student body, C.M. Washington Elementary School lists that Black students make up the majority at 60%; the rest reads as 22% White, 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Lafourche Parish as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, C.M. Washington Elementary School reports 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Roughly 83% of students at C.M. Washington Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Lafourche Parish (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, C.M. Washington Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.0%; this one delivers 25.3%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Lafourche Parish) records that median household income runs about $63,135, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. C.M. Washington Elementary School is one of 32 public schools in Lafourche Parish (combined enrollment of about 13,426 students).

Nearest neighbor: Thibodaux Middle School, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), C.M. Washington Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 36.2%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. C.M. Washington Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 16% since 2018, when it stood at 469 (now 392). The White share of enrollment fell from 30% to 22% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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