Mamou Elementary School

Located at 1205 Fourth Street, in Mamou, Louisiana, Mamou Elementary School is a mid-tier K-5 school that educates 392 students (grades pre-K through 4), part of Evangeline Parish.

Evangeline Parish runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 5,326 students. Mamou Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Mamou Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 38% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 65%.

In terms of school funding signals, Mamou Elementary School logs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. The state averages about 14.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 79% of students at Mamou 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, Mamou Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Louisiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 27.5%; Mamou Elementary School posts 53.3%, +25.8 points above that line.

Around the school, census data for Evangeline Parish shows median household earnings sit near $41,915, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 19%. In all, Evangeline Parish runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,326 students), of which Mamou Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Mamou High School, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mamou Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 22.6%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Mamou Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 19% since 2018, when it stood at 486 (now 392). Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

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