Sixth Ward Elementary School

As a cozy middle-grades school in Vacherie, Louisiana, Sixth Ward Elementary School hosts 269 students from grades 4 through 6, operated by St. James Parish. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 440 students each, so Sixth Ward Elementary School sits 39% smaller than that benchmark.

St. James Parish runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,194 students. Sixth Ward Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Sixth Ward Elementary School shows that Black students make up the majority at 79%. The remainder comes out to 16% White, 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 47% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 41.0:1 average. Around 83% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against St. James Parish (around 64%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sixth Ward Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 26.7%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for St. James Parish indicate the typical household earns roughly $65,531 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, St. James Parish runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,194 students), of which Sixth Ward Elementary School is one.

Paulina Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Sixth Ward Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Sixth Ward Elementary School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 41.9%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 27%: 370 students in 2018 compared to 269 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment decreased from 94% to 79% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

Inside the community feed, members of the Sixth Ward Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.