Enrollment
285
Elementary
DISTRICT 370 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VERMILION PARISH·NCES 220180001394
James A. Herod Elementary School
120 Odea Street, Abbeville, LA 70510 · (337) 893-4258 · Vermilion Parish
GRADES 03–05ELEMENTARY31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL285 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 38% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Louisiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.1:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
254 students
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 70%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 90 | 32% |
| Grade 4 | 94 | 33% |
| Grade 5 | 101 | 35% |
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 65% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Vermilion Parish. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
28.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +0.0pp since 2022
Math
22.0%
LA avg 34.2% . -2.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2022, while math scores are down about 2 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 28.0% | 22.0% |
| 2024-25 | 33.0% | 24.0% |
| 2023-24 | 31.0% | 18.0% |
| 2022-23 | 28.0% | 24.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
22.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.1%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 20% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Louisiana's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like James A. Herod Elementary School
James A. Herod Elementary School's state test result (22.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| James A. Herod Elementary School this school | 285 | 89.1% | 22.5% |
| Eaton Park Elementary School Abbeville | 376 | 88.6% | N/A |
| Park Vista Elementary School Opelousas | 533 | 82.9% | 26.8% |
| Isaac G Joseph Elementary School Westwego | 439 | 83.4% | 21.2% |
| Magnolia Elementary New Iberia | 407 | 81.1% | 25.8% |
| Cherokee Elementary School Alexandria | 576 | 84.5% | 33.8% |
Matched among Louisiana elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where James A. Herod Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Vermilion Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.5% | #416 of 583 | #11 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.0% | #421 of 582 ▼ 34 | #11 of 11 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.0% | #451 of 587 ▼ 67 | #11 of 11 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.0pp | #234 of 540 | #7 of 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 285 | #554 of 714 | #8 of 13 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.1:1 | #45 of 655 | #1 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.0% | #283 of 655 | #2 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.1% | #136 of 705 | #1 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -35.8% | #38 of 436 | #2 of 11 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
285
-91 (-24%) vs 2020
-47% since 1990-91, when it was 536
Student : Teacher
10.1:1
was 12.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 285 | 28.2 | 10.1:1 | 89% (254) |
| 2023-24 | 344 | 32 | 10.7:1 | 91% (313) |
| 2022-23 | 340 | 27 | 12.6:1 | 90% (305) |
| 2020-21 | 376 | 31 | 12.1:1 | 78% (294) |
| 2017-18 | 444 | 31.9 | 13.9:1 | 73% (324) |
| 2015-16 | 438 | 52 | 8.4:1 | 85% (374) |
| 2010-11 | 586 | 49 | 12.0:1 | 94% (549) |
| 2000-01 | 554 | 40 | 13.8:1 | 86% (478) |
| 1990-91 | 536 | 27 | 19.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for James A. Herod Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 36% (444 to 285); teachers down 12% (31.9 to 28.2).
About James A. Herod Elementary School
James A. Herod Elementary School is a small elementary school in Abbeville, Louisiana, administered by Vermilion Parish. The school has 285 students in 2024-25 across grades 3 through 5. Elementary schools in Louisiana have about 453 students on average; enrollment here is 37% lower.
James A. Herod Elementary School falls under Vermilion Parish, which has 20 schools enrolling 8,433 students.
Black students are 65% of those enrolled at James A. Herod Elementary School. Next come 19% White, 7% Asian, 5% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic. That compares with about 13% Black among all Vermilion Parish residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 53%.
The school had 28.2 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 10.1:1. The school's 10.1:1 compares with an average of 14.0:1 for elementary schools in Louisiana. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 89%. The 56% average for public schools in Vermilion Parish is 33 points lower.
James A. Herod Elementary School holds a C+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 38% of Louisiana public elementary schools.
James A. Herod Elementary School's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (22.5%) and its predicted rate (20.1%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Louisiana schools.
For the population of Vermilion Parish, median household income comes to about $55,707, roughly 18% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 17%. Vermilion Parish counts 24 public schools with about 10,278 students.
Abbeville High School is about 0.7 miles from James A. Herod Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, 7 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, James A. Herod Elementary School ranks 5th in a group of 6 nearby schools.
Its NCES locale code is Town: Fringe: the school is in a town close to an urbanized area.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 285, from 376 in 2020-21. Its ratio of students to teachers was 12.1:1 in 2020-21, and 10.1:1 in 2024-25.
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Vermilion Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
57,123
Census ACS
Median income
$55,707
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
18%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
17%
Below federal line
Schools in county
24
10,278 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Vermilion Parish
- North Vermilion High SchoolHigh · 790 students
- Leblanc Elementary SchoolElementary · 624 students
- Cecil Picard Elementary School at MauriceElementary · 592 students
- Abbeville High SchoolHigh · 569 students
- Erath High SchoolHigh · 557 students
- Dozier Elementary SchoolElementary · 556 students
Other schools in Abbeville
- Leblanc Elementary SchoolElementary · 624 students
- Abbeville High SchoolHigh · 569 students
- Eaton Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 376 students
- J.H. Williams Middle SchoolMiddle · 374 students
- Meaux Elementary SchoolElementary · 281 students
- Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem SchoolElementary · 243 students
Nearby schools
- Abbeville High School0.7 mi · 569
- J.H. Williams Middle School0.8 mi · 374
- Eaton Park Elementary School2.1 mi · 376
- Dozier Elementary School4.4 mi · 556
- Leblanc Elementary School4.6 mi · 624
- Erath Middle School4.7 mi · 466
Frequently asked questions
About James A. Herod Elementary SchoolHow large is James A. Herod Elementary School?
James A. Herod Elementary School enrolls approximately 285 students in grades 03-05.
What age range does James A. Herod Elementary School serve?
James A. Herod Elementary School serves students from grade 03 through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at James A. Herod Elementary School?
Approximately 10.1:1 students per teacher at James A. Herod Elementary School.
How diverse is James A. Herod Elementary School?
James A. Herod Elementary School reports a student body of 19% White, 4% Hispanic, 65% Black, 7% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees James A. Herod Elementary School?
James A. Herod Elementary School is overseen by Vermilion Parish in Vermilion Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.