Ernest Gallet Elementary School

Ernest Gallet Elementary School, an average-sized elementary campus in Youngsville, Louisiana, run under Lafayette Parish, hosts 643 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 42% bigger than the state mean of about 453.

Lafayette Parish runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 29,396 students. Ernest Gallet Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Ernest Gallet Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment. Other groups include 22% Black, 7% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Ernest Gallet Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Lafayette Parish's rate of about 59%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Ernest Gallet Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.9%, the actual is 64.0%, a residual of +7.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Lafayette Parish shows the typical household earns roughly $67,451 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Lafayette Parish's 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,903 students), Ernest Gallet Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Acadiana Renaissance Charter Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Ernest Gallet Elementary School at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 52.1%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Ernest Gallet Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 30% since 2018, when it stood at 913 (now 643). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 72% to 62%.

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