Seventh Ward Elementary School

Set in Abbeville, Louisiana, Seventh Ward Elementary School is an one-room-style K-5 school, one of the schools within Vermilion Parish. It educates 163 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 64% leaner than the state mean of about 453.

Vermilion Parish runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 8,433 students. Seventh Ward Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Seventh Ward Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 26% Black, 18% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Vermilion Parish as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Vermilion Parish runs at roughly 56%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Seventh Ward 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 31.4%; Seventh Ward Elementary School posts 62.0%, +30.6 points above that line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Vermilion Parish put the typical household earns roughly $55,707 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Across Vermilion Parish's 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,278 students), Seventh Ward Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Seventh Ward Elementary School at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 41.2%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Seventh Ward Elementary School has contracted 34%, going from 246 students in 2018 to 163 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 20% to 26% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

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