Coteau-Bayou Blue Elementary School

Coteau-Bayou Blue Elementary School, a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Houma, Louisiana, part of Terrebonne Parish, hosts 627 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 453 students per school, that is 38% above typical.

Terrebonne Parish runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 15,168 students. Coteau-Bayou Blue Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Coteau-Bayou Blue Elementary School records that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 24% Hispanic, 15% Black, 8% multiracial, 5% Native American. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 65%.

On the income-and-resources front, Coteau-Bayou Blue Elementary School logs 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Coteau-Bayou Blue Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 29.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.7%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Terrebonne Parish indicate median household income runs about $64,836, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Coteau-Bayou Blue Elementary School is one of 32 public schools in Terrebonne Parish (combined enrollment of about 15,201 students).

Oakshire Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Coteau-Bayou Blue Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Coteau-Bayou Blue Elementary School at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 43.4%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 11%: 702 students in 2018 compared to 627 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 20% to 24% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 20.1:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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