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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Ossun Elementary School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
498
Elementary
DISTRICT 584 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAFAYETTE PARISH·NCES 220087001556
Ossun Elementary School
400 Rue Scholastique, Lafayette, LA 70507 · (337) 521-7770 · Lafayette Parish
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL498 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 73% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Louisiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.8:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.7:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
395 students
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 70%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 69 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 85 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 79 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 90 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 89 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (69) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (86).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 65% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
46.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +5.0pp since 2022
Math
40.0%
LA avg 34.2% . -1.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 1 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 46.0% | 40.0% |
| 2024-25 | 47.0% | 44.0% |
| 2023-24 | 43.0% | 36.0% |
| 2022-23 | 41.0% | 41.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
38.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
27.2%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Louisiana's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Ossun Elementary School
Ossun Elementary School's state test result (38.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ossun Elementary School this school | 498 | 79.3% | 38.5% |
| Cankton Elementary School Cankton | 504 | 82.9% | 28.3% |
| Union Parish Elementary School Farmerville | 506 | 77.9% | 10.5% |
| Lucille Nesom Memorial Tickfaw | 414 | 83.1% | 14.8% |
| Caneview K-8 School Port Allen | 483 | 82.0% | 30.8% |
| Hattie A. Watts Elementary School Patterson | 601 | 80.2% | 31.0% |
Matched among Louisiana elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Ossun Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Lafayette Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.5% | #240 of 583 | #15 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #224 of 582 ▼ 52 | #15 of 24 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #232 of 587 ▼ 5 | #13 of 24 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.0pp | #216 of 540 | #10 of 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 498 | #263 of 714 | #18 of 26 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.8:1 | #623 of 655 | #18 of 26 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.4% | #67 of 655 | #8 of 26 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.3% | #285 of 705 | #7 of 26 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.1% | #313 of 436 | #11 of 14 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
498
-31 (-6%) vs 2020
-33% since 1990-91, when it was 746
Student : Teacher
17.8:1
was 18.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 498 | 27.9 | 17.8:1 | 79% (395) |
| 2023-24 | 518 | 29.7 | 17.4:1 | 80% (416) |
| 2022-23 | 519 | 27 | 19.2:1 | 76% (395) |
| 2020-21 | 529 | 28 | 18.9:1 | 91% (479) |
| 2017-18 | 548 | 26 | 21.1:1 | 59% (322) |
| 2015-16 | 707 | 43 | 16.4:1 | 70% (494) |
| 2010-11 | 861 | 52 | 16.6:1 | 81% (694) |
| 2000-01 | 745 | 45 | 16.6:1 | 63% (466) |
| 1990-91 | 746 | 37 | 20.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ossun Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (548 to 498); teachers up 7% (26 to 27.9).
About Ossun Elementary School
Ossun Elementary School is one of the public schools in Lafayette, Louisiana. It is a mid-sized elementary school. The school covers pre-K through 5 and reported 498 students in 2024-25.
Lafayette Parish counts 29,396 students in its 44 schools, and Ossun Elementary School is one of them.
The student body at Ossun Elementary School has no majority group. Black students lead at 42%. Next come 35% White, 18% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. The county population is about 25% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 66, compared with 70 nationally.
Staffing at Ossun Elementary School comes to 27.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.8:1. The school's 17.8:1 compares with an average of 14.0:1 for elementary schools in Louisiana. On the income side, 79% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 59% average for public schools in Lafayette Parish is 20 points.
Ossun Elementary School earns a B+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 73% of Louisiana public elementary schools.
Ossun Elementary School's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (38.5%) and its predicted rate (27.2%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Louisiana schools.
In Lafayette Parish, home to about 247,997 people, the median household earns about $67,451 a year, roughly 35% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 13%. Ossun Elementary School shares Lafayette Parish with 49 other public schools.
Live Oak Elementary School is about 2.9 miles from Ossun Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Ossun Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, Ossun Elementary School ranks 2nd on proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Mid-size, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
A 6% decrease took enrollment from 529 in 2020-21 to 498 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 18.9:1 to 17.8:1.
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Lafayette Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
247,997
Census ACS
Median income
$67,451
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
50
35,903 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lafayette Parish
- Southside High SchoolHigh · 1,833 students
- Lafayette High SchoolHigh · 1,720 students
- Acadiana High SchoolHigh · 1,652 students
- David Thibodaux STEM Magnet AcademyHigh · 1,362 students
- Milton Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,261 students
- Carencro High SchoolHigh · 1,116 students
Other schools in Lafayette
- Lafayette Renaissance Charter AcademyCombined · 2,177 students
- Lafayette High SchoolHigh · 1,720 students
- Acadiana High SchoolHigh · 1,652 students
- David Thibodaux STEM Magnet AcademyHigh · 1,362 students
- Milton Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,261 students
- Carencro High SchoolHigh · 1,116 students
Nearby schools
- Live Oak Elementary School2.9 mi · 520
- Carencro High School3.3 mi · 1,116
- Carencro Middle School3.4 mi · 585
- Westside Elementary School3.6 mi · 597
- L. Leo Judice Elementary School3.8 mi · 371
- Carencro Bob Lilly Elementary3.9 mi · 705
Frequently asked questions
About Ossun Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Ossun Elementary School?
Ossun Elementary School enrolls approximately 498 students in grades PK-05.
Is Ossun Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Ossun Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Ossun Elementary School have?
Ossun Elementary School employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.8:1.
How diverse is Ossun Elementary School?
Ossun Elementary School reports a student body of 35% White, 18% Hispanic, 42% Black, 4% Two or more.
What district is Ossun Elementary School in?
Ossun Elementary School is part of Lafayette Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.