Live Oak Elementary School

Live Oak Elementary School is a mid-tier elementary school in Lafayette, Louisiana, run under Lafayette Parish. The school caters to 520 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Lafayette Parish comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 29,396 students; Live Oak Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Live Oak Elementary School logs that 66% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest consists of 18% Hispanic, 14% White. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

In terms of school funding signals, Live Oak Elementary School records 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 82% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Lafayette Parish runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Live Oak Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.5%, the actual is 25.3%, a residual of -0.2 points.

In the area at large, Lafayette Parish reports that the typical household earns roughly $67,451 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lafayette Parish's 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,903 students), Live Oak Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Carencro High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Live Oak Elementary School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 31.2%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Live Oak Elementary School has shrank 26%, going from 699 students in 2018 to 520 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 6% to 18% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.