Oakshire Elementary School

Oakshire Elementary School operates as a moderately sized primary school in Houma, Louisiana, operated by Terrebonne Parish. Current enrollment sits at 576 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 27% above the state mean of about 453.

Terrebonne Parish comprises 30 schools with combined enrollment of 15,168 students; Oakshire Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Oakshire Elementary School lists that 43% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 26% Black, 13% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 65%.

On the income-and-resources front, Oakshire Elementary School records 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Oakshire Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.9%, the actual is 42.0%, a residual of +10.1 points.

Around the school, Terrebonne Parish reports that the typical household earns roughly $64,836 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Terrebonne Parish runs 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,201 students), of which Oakshire Elementary School is one.

Coteau-Bayou Blue Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Oakshire Elementary School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 41.5%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Oakshire Elementary School has fell 18%, going from 699 students in 2018 to 576 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 49% to 43%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Oakshire Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.