Enrollment
243
Elementary
DISTRICT 370 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VERMILION PARISH·NCES 220180001391
Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School
19635 Columbus Road, Abbeville, LA 70510 · (337) 642-9100 · Vermilion Parish
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL243 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 80% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Louisiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
123 students
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 70%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 16 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 23 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 27 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 19 | 8% |
| Grade 3 | 21 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 19 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 28 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 36 | 15% |
| Grade 7 | 23 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 31 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (23) is 26% smaller than its 8th grade class (31).
Student demographics
13%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 65% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
65.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +7.0pp since 2022
Math
58.0%
LA avg 34.2% . -2.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 2 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 65.0% | 58.0% |
| 2024-25 | 62.0% | 58.0% |
| 2023-24 | 68.0% | 51.0% |
| 2022-23 | 58.0% | 60.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
52.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.9%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Louisiana's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School
Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School's state test result (52.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School this school | 243 | 50.6% | 52.3% |
| Egan Elementary School Egan | 240 | 48.3% | 71.2% |
| Bayou Boeuf Elementary School Thibodaux | 209 | 46.4% | 69.8% |
| Fellowship Elementary School Trout | 209 | 43.1% | 41.3% |
| Indian Bayou Elementary School Rayne | 217 | 42.4% | 59.3% |
| Pinecrest Elementary/Middle School West Monroe | 167 | 52.7% | 42.3% |
Matched among Louisiana elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Vermilion Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.3% | #93 of 583 | #7 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #69 of 582 ▲ 6 | #6 of 11 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #59 of 587 ▲ 24 | #2 of 11 ▲ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.5pp | #201 of 540 | #2 of 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 243 | #607 of 714 | #10 of 13 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #263 of 655 | #3 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 13.3% | #603 of 655 | #11 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 50.6% | #610 of 705 | #8 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.6% | #143 of 436 | #5 of 11 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
243
-29 (-11%) vs 2020
-28% since 1990-91, when it was 336
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 15.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 243 | 18.9 | 12.8:1 | 51% (123) |
| 2023-24 | 246 | 20.9 | 11.8:1 | 54% (132) |
| 2022-23 | 254 | 19.2 | 13.3:1 | 56% (141) |
| 2020-21 | 272 | 18 | 15.1:1 | 42% (114) |
| 2017-18 | 310 | 20.5 | 15.1:1 | 33% (101) |
| 2015-16 | 291 | N/A | N/A | 62% (180) |
| 2010-11 | 360 | 23 | 15.7:1 | 51% (182) |
| 2000-01 | 301 | 26 | 11.6:1 | 53% (161) |
| 1990-91 | 336 | 20 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (310 to 243); teachers down 8% (20.5 to 18.9).
About Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School
In Abbeville, Louisiana, Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School is a small elementary school. The school enrolls 243 students, from pre-K through 8. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Louisiana) has about 453 students.
District-wide, Vermilion Parish has 20 schools and 8,433 students.
About 93% of the student body at Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School is White. Smaller groups are 3% multiracial. County-wide, 78% of Vermilion Parish residents are White. Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School's diversity index is 13%, against a US figure of 70%.
Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School counts 18.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 12.8 students for each one. On average, elementary schools in Louisiana have 14.0:1, compared with 12.8:1 here. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch.
Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 80% of Louisiana public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
A school with Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School's lunch-eligibility share in Louisiana is predicted to score 47.9%. Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School scores 52.3%, 4.4 points above that line.
Federal survey data for Vermilion Parish show that the median household income is $55,707, about 18% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 17% of residents are in poverty. Vermilion Parish is home to 24 public schools and about 10,278 public school students.
The next-closest public school is Seventh Ward Elementary School, about 5.6 miles away. The count of other public schools within ten miles is 3. Its average proficiency rate of 52.3% is above the 39.3% average for nearby schools.
Federal records code the school's setting as Rural: Distant.
Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School's enrollment declined from 272 in 2020-21 to 243 in 2024-25. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 12.8:1, from 15.1:1.
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Vermilion Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
57,123
Census ACS
Median income
$55,707
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
18%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
17%
Below federal line
Schools in county
24
10,278 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Vermilion Parish
- North Vermilion High SchoolHigh · 790 students
- Leblanc Elementary SchoolElementary · 624 students
- Cecil Picard Elementary School at MauriceElementary · 592 students
- Abbeville High SchoolHigh · 569 students
- Erath High SchoolHigh · 557 students
- Dozier Elementary SchoolElementary · 556 students
Other schools in Abbeville
- Leblanc Elementary SchoolElementary · 624 students
- Abbeville High SchoolHigh · 569 students
- Eaton Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 376 students
- J.H. Williams Middle SchoolMiddle · 374 students
- James A. Herod Elementary SchoolElementary · 285 students
- Meaux Elementary SchoolElementary · 281 students
Nearby schools
- Seventh Ward Elementary School5.6 mi · 163
- Kaplan High School9.2 mi · 528
- Rene A. Rost Middle School9.8 mi · 360
- Eaton Park Elementary School10.0 mi · 376
- Kaplan Elementary School10.2 mi · 550
- J.H. Williams Middle School11.5 mi · 374
Frequently asked questions
About Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School?
Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School enrolls approximately 243 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School serve?
Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School serves grades PK-08.
How many teachers does Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School have?
Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School employs 19 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School?
Student demographics at Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School are roughly 93% White, 2% Hispanic, 1% Black, 3% Two or more.
What district is Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School in?
Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School is part of Vermilion Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.