Meaux Elementary School

Meaux Elementary School operates as a close-knit K-5 school in Abbeville, Louisiana, one of the schools within Vermilion Parish. Current enrollment sits at 281 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Meaux Elementary School sits 38% below that benchmark.

Meaux Elementary School is one of 20 schools operated by Vermilion Parish, a district that educates 8,433 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Meaux Elementary School lists that 78% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 10% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. Compared to Vermilion Parish overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Meaux Elementary School lists 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. The state averages about 14.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Meaux Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 52.0%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Vermilion Parish indicate median household earnings sit near $55,707, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. Across Vermilion Parish's 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,278 students), Meaux Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is North Vermilion Middle School, roughly 4.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Meaux Elementary School. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Meaux Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 29.3%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 37%: 447 students in 2018 compared to 281 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 85% to 78%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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