Enrollment
163
Elementary
DISTRICT 370 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VERMILION PARISH·NCES 220180001403
Seventh Ward Elementary School
12012 Audubon Road, Abbeville, LA 70510 · (337) 893-5875 · Vermilion Parish
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL163 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 89% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- ATest 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.
- FThree-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
11.3:1
14 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
74%
120 students
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 70%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 10 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 25 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 19 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 30 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 35 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 20 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 24 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (25) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (24).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · 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
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LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
51.0%
LA avg 41.8% . -26.0pp since 2022
Math
53.0%
LA avg 34.2% . -15.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are down about 26 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 15 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 51.0% | 53.0% |
| 2024-25 | 78.0% | 59.0% |
| 2023-24 | 74.0% | 64.0% |
| 2022-23 | 77.0% | 68.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of LA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
61.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.3%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+30.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 31% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 30 points, placing it in Louisiana's top 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 Seventh Ward Elementary School
Seventh Ward Elementary School's state test result (61.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seventh Ward Elementary School this school | 163 | 73.6% | 61.3% |
| Duson Elementary School Duson | 229 | 74.2% | 48.8% |
| Dubach School Dubach | 134 | 76.1% | 35.2% |
| Golden Meadow Lower Elementary School Golden Meadow | 155 | 74.8% | N/A |
| Central Rayne Kindergarten School Rayne | 173 | 80.3% | N/A |
| Golden Meadow Upper Elementary School Golden Meadow | 125 | 79.2% | 43.2% |
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 Seventh Ward Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Vermilion Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.3% | #48 of 583 | #3 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #101 of 582 ▼ 31 | #9 of 11 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #185 of 587 ▼ 162 | #9 of 11 ▼ 8 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -20.5pp | #5 of 540 | #1 of 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 163 | #679 of 714 | #13 of 13 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 73.6% | #362 of 705 | #3 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -33.7% | #54 of 436 | #3 of 11 |
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
163
-66 (-29%) vs 2020
-51% since 1990-91, when it was 333
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 163 | 14.4 | 11.3:1 | 74% (120) |
| 2023-24 | 211 | 15.2 | 13.9:1 | 74% (157) |
| 2022-23 | 221 | 14.9 | 14.8:1 | 74% (163) |
| 2020-21 | 229 | 15 | 15.3:1 | 45% (104) |
| 2017-18 | 246 | 15.5 | 15.9:1 | 49% (120) |
| 2015-16 | 279 | 18 | 15.5:1 | 57% (159) |
| 2010-11 | 296 | 17 | 17.4:1 | 56% (167) |
| 2000-01 | 258 | 16 | 16.1:1 | 64% (166) |
| 1990-91 | 333 | 22 | 15.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Seventh Ward Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 34% (246 to 163); teachers down 7% (15.5 to 14.4).
About Seventh Ward Elementary School
Seventh Ward Elementary School is an elementary school located in Abbeville, Louisiana, in Vermilion Parish. It educates 163 students in pre-K through 5. The school's enrollment is 64% smaller than the 453 average for elementary schools in Louisiana.
Vermilion Parish has a total of 20 schools and 8,433 students, Seventh Ward Elementary School among them.
White students are the majority at Seventh Ward Elementary School, with 53% of enrollment. Other groups make up 26% Black, 18% Hispanic, and 3% multiracial. Vermilion Parish as a whole is about 78% White, so the school's share is lower. Pick two students at random and there is a 62% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The ratio of students to teachers is 11.3:1, with 14.4 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 14.0:1 average for elementary schools in Louisiana. Lunch subsidy eligibility at Seventh Ward Elementary School is 74%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Vermilion Parish is 56%.
allk12 grades Seventh Ward Elementary School an A. The grade compares the school only with Louisiana public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
A school in Louisiana with Seventh Ward Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 31.3%. Seventh Ward Elementary School scores 61.3%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Vermilion Parish show that the median household income is $55,707, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 18%, and roughly 17% of residents are in poverty. Besides Seventh Ward Elementary School, Vermilion Parish has 23 other public schools.
The shortest distance from Seventh Ward Elementary School to another public school is about 5.6 miles, to Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within ten miles. On state test proficiency, Seventh Ward Elementary School ranks 1st in a group of 6 nearby schools.
Federal data place Seventh Ward Elementary School in the Rural: Distant locale, which means it is in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Federal data show a 29% enrollment decrease, from 229 in 2020-21 to 163 in 2024-25. Students per teacher fell from 15.3 in 2020-21 to 11.3 in 2024-25.
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Vermilion Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
57,123
Census ACS
Median income
$55,707
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
18%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
17%
Below federal line
Schools in county
24
10,278 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Vermilion Parish
- North Vermilion High SchoolHigh · 790 students
- Leblanc Elementary SchoolElementary · 624 students
- Cecil Picard Elementary School at MauriceElementary · 592 students
- Abbeville High SchoolHigh · 569 students
- Erath High SchoolHigh · 557 students
- Dozier Elementary SchoolElementary · 556 students
Other schools in Abbeville
- Leblanc Elementary SchoolElementary · 624 students
- Abbeville High SchoolHigh · 569 students
- Eaton Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 376 students
- J.H. Williams Middle SchoolMiddle · 374 students
- James A. Herod Elementary SchoolElementary · 285 students
- Meaux Elementary SchoolElementary · 281 students
Other Seventh Ward Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Seventh Ward Elementary. Seventh Ward Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Seventh Ward Elementary SchoolDenham Springs, LA · 382 students
Nearby schools
- Forked Island/E. Broussard Elem School5.6 mi · 243
- Eaton Park Elementary School6.2 mi · 376
- J.H. Williams Middle School7.5 mi · 374
- James A. Herod Elementary School7.8 mi · 285
- Abbeville High School8.5 mi · 569
- Erath High School9.8 mi · 557
Frequently asked questions
About Seventh Ward Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Seventh Ward Elementary School?
Seventh Ward Elementary School enrolls approximately 163 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Seventh Ward Elementary School serve?
Seventh Ward Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Seventh Ward Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Seventh Ward Elementary School is approximately 11.3:1 (14 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Seventh Ward Elementary School?
Student demographics at Seventh Ward Elementary School are roughly 53% White, 18% Hispanic, 26% Black, 3% Two or more.
What district is Seventh Ward Elementary School in?
Seventh Ward Elementary School is part of Vermilion Parish.
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