Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School

Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School, a compact K-5 school in Abbeville, Louisiana, one of the schools within Vermilion Parish, instructs 243 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 46% leaner than the state mean of about 453.

Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School is one of 20 schools operated by Vermilion Parish, a district that serves 8,433 students overall.

Demographically, Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School reports that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 3% multiracial. By comparison, Vermilion Parish as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School shows 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Roughly 51% of students at Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.8%; this one delivers 52.7%.

In the broader community, Vermilion Parish reports that the typical household earns roughly $55,707 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. Across Vermilion Parish's 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,278 students), Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Seventh Ward Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.6 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 39.3%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 22%: 310 students in 2018 compared to 243 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.