Evangeline Elementary School

Evangeline Elementary School is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary campuss in Lafayette, Louisiana, operated by Lafayette Parish, with 604 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Evangeline Elementary School sits 33% bigger than that benchmark.

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

Looking at the student body, Evangeline Elementary School logs that 81% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 12% White, 5% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 25% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Evangeline Elementary School has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Lafayette Parish's rate of about 59%.

After controlling for student poverty, Evangeline Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Louisiana schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 23.1%; actual is 39.3%, +16.2 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Lafayette Parish indicate the typical household earns roughly $67,451 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Evangeline Elementary School is one of 50 public schools in Lafayette Parish (combined enrollment of about 35,903 students).

Nearest neighbor: Acadian Middle School, around 0.1 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), Evangeline Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 18.8%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Evangeline Elementary School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 599 (now 604). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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