Myrtle Place Elementary School

Myrtle Place Elementary School is an elementary school of modestly sized scale in Lafayette, Louisiana, run under Lafayette Parish, teacheing 384 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Lafayette Parish, which oversees 44 schools and 29,396 students, Myrtle Place Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Myrtle Place Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 20% Black, 2% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Around 30% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Lafayette Parish's rate of about 59%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Myrtle Place 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 62.3%; Myrtle Place Elementary School posts 81.3%, +19.0 points above that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Lafayette Parish put the typical household earns roughly $67,451 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Lafayette Parish's 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,903 students), Myrtle Place Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Lafayette Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Myrtle Place Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 23.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Myrtle Place Elementary School's enrollment has rose 15% since 2018, when it stood at 334 (now 384). The White share of enrollment edged up from 60% to 74% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 in 2025.

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