Iota Elementary School

Iota Elementary School is one of the mid-sized elementary-level communitys in Iota, Louisiana, operated by Acadia Parish, with 585 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 29% above the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 453 students.

Within Acadia Parish, which oversees 27 schools and 9,043 students, Iota Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Iota Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%). Beyond that, the school logs 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black. By comparison, Acadia Parish as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Roughly 57% of students at Iota Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Acadia Parish runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Iota Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.4%, the actual is 50.3%, a residual of +6.9 points.

Around the school, Acadia Parish reports that the typical household earns roughly $45,562 per year, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 20%. Iota Elementary School is one of 27 public schools in Acadia Parish (combined enrollment of about 9,043 students).

Nearest neighbor: Iota Middle School, around 0.7 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Iota Elementary School at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 49.6%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 584 students in 2018 compared to 585 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 today.

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