Park Vista Elementary School

As an average-sized K-5 school in Opelousas, Louisiana, Park Vista Elementary School teaches 533 students from grades pre-K through 4, one of the schools within St. Landry Parish.

Park Vista Elementary School is one of 32 schools operated by St. Landry Parish, a district that enrolls 10,982 students overall.

Demographically, Park Vista Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Black, at 67% of enrollment. Other groups include 16% White, 10% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, St. Landry Parish as a whole is about 40% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Park Vista Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 83% of students at Park Vista Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Park Vista Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.8%; this one delivers 24.7%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for St. Landry Parish put median household earnings sit near $44,462, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 22%. Park Vista Elementary School is one of 37 public schools in St. Landry Parish (combined enrollment of about 11,731 students).

Nearest neighbor: Creswell Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Park Vista Elementary School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 25.2%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Park Vista Elementary School has ticked down 37%, going from 845 students in 2018 to 533 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 33% to 16% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

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