Grand Caillou Elementary School

Grand Caillou Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school in Houma, Louisiana, overseen by Terrebonne Parish. The school enrolls 360 students in grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Grand Caillou Elementary School sits 21% leaner than that benchmark.

Terrebonne Parish comprises 30 schools with combined enrollment of 15,168 students; Grand Caillou Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Grand Caillou Elementary School shows that 26% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 24% Native American, 23% White, 14% Black, 12% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 7% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Grand Caillou Elementary School has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.4:1. The state averages about 14.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Terrebonne Parish's rate of about 73%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Grand Caillou Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 19.6%; this one delivers 49.3%, a residual of +29.8 points.

In the broader community, Terrebonne Parish reports that the typical household earns roughly $64,836 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Grand Caillou Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Oaklawn Middle School, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Grand Caillou Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Grand Caillou Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 34.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Grand Caillou Elementary School has decreased 31%, going from 525 students in 2018 to 360 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 19% to 26% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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