Sugarland Elementary School

Sugarland Elementary School operates as a cozy elementary campus in New Iberia, Louisiana, part of Iberia Parish. Current enrollment sits at 269 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Sugarland Elementary School sits 41% smaller than that benchmark.

Iberia Parish runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 11,037 students. Sugarland Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Sugarland Elementary School logs that Black students make up the majority at 75%. The remainder is composed of 12% White, 4% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Iberia Parish as a whole is about 31% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Sugarland Elementary School has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 88% of students at Sugarland Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Iberia Parish's rate of about 74%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sugarland Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.1%, the actual is 21.7%, a residual of +0.6 points.

Across the wider county, Iberia Parish reports that median household income runs about $56,961, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Iberia Parish runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,111 students), of which Sugarland Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Westgate High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sugarland Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 24.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 6-year window. Sugarland Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 22% since 2018, when it stood at 346 (now 269). Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2024.

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