Enrollment
269
Middle
DISTRICT 336 · STATE 440
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. JAMES PARISH·NCES 220150001169
Sixth Ward Elementary School
3245 Valcour Aime Street, Vacherie, LA 70090 · (225) 258-4640 · St. James Parish
GRADES 04–06MIDDLE41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL269 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 38% of Louisiana public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
10.6:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 41.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
222 students
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 70%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 37 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 30% |
| Grade 5 | 82 | 30% |
| Grade 6 | 70 | 26% |
Student demographics
35%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
33.0%
LA avg 41.8% . -14.0pp since 2022
Math
25.0%
LA avg 34.2% . -11.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 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 14 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 11 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 33.0% | 25.0% |
| 2024-25 | 30.0% | 25.0% |
| 2023-24 | 38.0% | 23.0% |
| 2022-23 | 47.0% | 36.0% |
% 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
24.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
24.9%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% 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 Sixth Ward Elementary School
Sixth Ward Elementary School's state test result (24.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sixth Ward Elementary School this school | 269 | 82.5% | 24.8% |
| Mansfield Middle School Mansfield | 331 | 87.0% | 19.8% |
| Caddo Middle Career and Technology School Shreveport | 336 | 84.2% | 9.0% |
| Oak Park Middle School Lake Charles | 388 | 83.0% | 14.2% |
| Amite Westside Middle Magnet Amite | 279 | 90.7% | 13.7% |
| Community School For Apprenticeship Learning Baton Rouge | 290 | 82.8% | 18.0% |
Matched among Louisiana middle 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 Sixth Ward Elementary School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.8% | #137 of 213 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.0% | #120 of 210 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.0% | #145 of 213 ▲ 7 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -12.5pp | #5 of 197 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 269 | #171 of 220 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.6:1 | #26 of 195 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.7% | #157 of 195 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.5% | #55 of 214 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.3% | #33 of 162 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
269
-62 (-19%) vs 2020
-35% since 1990-91, when it was 417
Student : Teacher
10.6:1
was 15.1:1
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 | 269 | 25.4 | 10.6:1 | 83% (222) |
| 2023-24 | 275 | 30.1 | 9.1:1 | 62% (171) |
| 2022-23 | 290 | 24.5 | 11.8:1 | 73% (211) |
| 2020-21 | 331 | 22 | 15.1:1 | 52% (173) |
| 2017-18 | 370 | 26 | 14.2:1 | 63% (232) |
| 2015-16 | 310 | N/A | N/A | 98% (304) |
| 2010-11 | 340 | 24 | 14.2:1 | 98% (333) |
| 2000-01 | 333 | 20 | 16.6:1 | 95% (317) |
| 1990-91 | 417 | 23 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sixth Ward Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 27% (370 to 269); teachers down 2% (26 to 25.4).
About Sixth Ward Elementary School
Sixth Ward Elementary School is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as a middle-grades school in Vacherie, Louisiana. It reports enrollment of 269 students in grades 4 through 6. That puts enrollment 39% below the 440-student average for middle schools in Louisiana.
Sixth Ward Elementary School is run by St. James Parish, whose 6 schools enroll 3,194 students.
Federal enrollment data show Sixth Ward Elementary School is 79% Black. Other groups make up 16% White, 3% Hispanic, and 2% multiracial. St. James Parish as a whole is about 47% Black, so the school's share is higher. A diversity index of 35% means there is a 35% chance two randomly chosen students at Sixth Ward Elementary School are from different groups.
There are 25.4 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 10.6:1. Across middle schools in Louisiana, the average ratio is 41.0:1. Of all students at Sixth Ward Elementary School, 83% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in St. James Parish is 64%.
Among Louisiana public middle schools, Sixth Ward Elementary School outscored 38%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Sixth Ward Elementary School would score about 24.9%. It scores 24.8%, within a point of that figure.
In the wider St. James Parish area, the median household earns about $65,531 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 20% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Sixth Ward Elementary School shares St. James Parish with 5 other public schools.
Paulina Elementary School is about 2.6 miles from Sixth Ward Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, 3 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, Sixth Ward Elementary School ranks 8th on average proficiency.
Its location is classified as Rural: Fringe by the National Center for Education Statistics.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 269, from 331 in 2020-21. Its ratio of students to teachers was 15.1:1 in 2020-21, and 10.6:1 in 2024-25.
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St. James Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
19,528
Census ACS
Median income
$65,531
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
6
3,194 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in St. James Parish
- Lutcher High SchoolHigh · 908 students
- Paulina Elementary SchoolElementary · 657 students
- St. James High SchoolHigh · 593 students
- Gramercy Elementary SchoolMiddle · 403 students
- Vacherie Elementary SchoolElementary · 364 students
Other schools in Vacherie
- St. James High SchoolHigh · 593 students
- Vacherie Elementary SchoolElementary · 364 students
Other Sixth Ward Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Sixth Ward Elementary. Sixth Ward Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Sixth Ward Elementary SchoolPearl River, LA · 335 students
Nearby schools
- Paulina Elementary School2.6 mi · 657
- St. James High School3.7 mi · 593
- Lutcher High School4.6 mi · 908
- Gramercy Elementary School5.2 mi · 403
- Vacherie Elementary School6.1 mi · 364
- Garyville/Mt. Airy Math & Science Magnet Schl.8.2 mi · 305
Frequently asked questions
About Sixth Ward Elementary SchoolHow large is Sixth Ward Elementary School?
Sixth Ward Elementary School enrolls approximately 269 students in grades 04-06.
What age range does Sixth Ward Elementary School serve?
Sixth Ward Elementary School serves students from grade 04 through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Sixth Ward Elementary School?
Approximately 10.6:1 students per teacher at Sixth Ward Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Sixth Ward Elementary School?
Student demographics at Sixth Ward Elementary School are roughly 16% White, 3% Hispanic, 79% Black, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Sixth Ward Elementary School?
Sixth Ward Elementary School is overseen by St. James Parish in St. James Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.