Iberville Elementary School

Iberville Elementary School is an elementary school of substantial scale in Plaquemine, Louisiana, operated by Iberville Parish, works with 839 students in grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 85% above the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 453 students.

Within Iberville Parish, which oversees 8 schools and 4,076 students, Iberville Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Iberville Elementary School lists that Black students make up the majority at 73%. The remainder is composed of 19% White, 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Iberville Parish as a whole is about 43% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Roughly 79% of students at Iberville Elementary 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, Iberville Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 27.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.0%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Iberville Parish) shows that median household income runs about $54,000, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. In all, Iberville Parish runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,589 students), of which Iberville Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Iberville Charter Academy, roughly 1.0 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Iberville Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 37.8%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Iberville Elementary School has contracted 29%, going from 1,190 students in 2018 to 839 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 80% to 73% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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