Mermentau Elementary School

Mermentau Elementary School is a K-5 school of very small scale in Mermentau, Louisiana, one of the schools within Acadia Parish, instructing 142 students in grades pre-K through 7. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Mermentau Elementary School sits 69% below that benchmark.

Acadia Parish runs 27 schools in total, collectively educating 9,043 students. Mermentau Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Mermentau Elementary School shows that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 8% Black, 5% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.2:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mermentau 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 39.2%; Mermentau Elementary School posts 59.3%, +20.1 points above that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Acadia Parish put the typical household earns roughly $45,562 per year, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 20%. In all, Acadia Parish runs 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,043 students), of which Mermentau Elementary School is one.

Jennings Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Mermentau Elementary School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 46.4%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 8%: 154 students in 2018 compared to 142 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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