Gibson Elementary School

Gibson Elementary School is a micro-enrollment elementary campus in Gibson, Louisiana, overseen by Terrebonne Parish. The school teaches 155 students in grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 66% leaner than the state mean of about 453.

Terrebonne Parish runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 15,168 students. Gibson Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Gibson Elementary School lists that the most-represented group is Black (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 40% White, 11% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Gibson Elementary School shows 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Roughly 75% of students at Gibson Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Gibson Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.1%; this one delivers 34.3%.

Across the wider county, Terrebonne Parish reports that the typical household earns roughly $64,836 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Terrebonne Parish runs 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,201 students), of which Gibson Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Bayou L'Ourse Primary School, around 5.4 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Gibson Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 31.4%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 6 years. Gibson Elementary School's enrollment has fell 15% since 2018, when it stood at 182 (now 155). The White share of enrollment edged down from 47% to 40% over that span.

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