Ossun Elementary School

Set in Lafayette, Louisiana, Ossun Elementary School is a moderately sized K-5 school, run under Lafayette Parish. It enrolls 498 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Lafayette Parish runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 29,396 students. Ossun Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Ossun Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Black at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 35% White, 18% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Roughly 79% of students at Ossun Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Lafayette Parish runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Ossun Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.4%, the actual is 36.0%, a residual of +8.6 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Lafayette Parish) records that the typical household earns roughly $67,451 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Lafayette Parish's 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,903 students), Ossun Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Live Oak Elementary School, roughly 2.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ossun Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 32.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ossun Elementary School has contracted 9%, going from 548 students in 2018 to 498 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 11% to 18%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 21.1:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 in 2025.

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