Vacherie Elementary School

Vacherie Elementary School is one of the close-knit elementary campuss in Vacherie, Louisiana, part of St. James Parish, with 364 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 3.

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

On the student-mix side, Vacherie Elementary School reports that the largest single group is Black, at 78% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 18% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, St. James Parish as a whole is about 47% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Vacherie Elementary School lists 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Around 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, St. James Parish runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Vacherie Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.1%, the actual is 27.0%, a residual of -0.1 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (St. James Parish) shows that the typical household earns roughly $65,531 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across St. James Parish's 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,194 students), Vacherie Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is St. James High School, roughly 2.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Vacherie Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 40.8%.

Vacherie Elementary School operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Vacherie Elementary School's enrollment has expanded 17% since 2018, when it stood at 311 (now 364). Over the same period, the Black share rose from 48% to 78%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 today.

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