Dularge Elementary School

Located at 621 Dularge Road, in Houma, Louisiana, Dularge Elementary School is a close-knit elementary school that hosts 244 students (grades pre-K through 6), run under Terrebonne Parish. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Dularge Elementary School sits 46% below that benchmark.

Terrebonne Parish comprises 30 schools with combined enrollment of 15,168 students; Dularge Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Dularge Elementary School lists that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 27% Black, 14% multiracial, 10% Native American, 3% Hispanic. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 65%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Around 81% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Dularge Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Louisiana schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 26.1%; actual is 62.0%, +35.9 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Terrebonne Parish put the typical household earns roughly $64,836 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Terrebonne Parish runs 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,201 students), of which Dularge Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Mulberry Elementary School, roughly 3.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Dularge Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Dularge Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 39.0%.

Dularge Elementary School operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. Dularge Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 35% since 2018, when it stood at 373 (now 244). White enrollment moved from 53% to 45% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.

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