Egan Elementary School

Egan Elementary School is one of the compact K-5 schools in Egan, Louisiana, overseen by Acadia Parish, with 240 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Egan Elementary School sits 47% smaller than that benchmark.

Acadia Parish runs 27 schools in total, collectively educating 9,043 students. Egan Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Egan Elementary School lists that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Acadia Parish as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Egan Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Acadia Parish (around 67%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Egan Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 49.4%; this one delivers 72.7%, a residual of +23.2 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Acadia Parish indicate the typical household earns roughly $45,562 per year, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 20%. Egan Elementary School is one of 27 public schools in Acadia Parish (combined enrollment of about 9,043 students).

The closest other public school is Evangeline Elementary School, roughly 4.1 miles away. 3 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), Egan Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 53.3%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 10%: 218 students in 2018 compared to 240 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

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