Ville Platte Elementary School

Ville Platte Elementary School is one of the cozy elementary campuss in Ville Platte, Louisiana, overseen by Evangeline Parish, with 319 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so Ville Platte Elementary School sits 30% leaner than that benchmark.

Evangeline Parish runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 5,326 students. Ville Platte Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Ville Platte Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (86%); the rest is composed of 9% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 26% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Ville Platte Elementary School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Evangeline Parish runs at roughly 72%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Ville Platte Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 16.2%, the actual is 8.7%, a residual of -7.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Evangeline Parish shows median household income runs about $41,915, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 19% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Evangeline Parish's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,326 students), Ville Platte Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Evangeline Reimagine Academy, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Ville Platte Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Ville Platte Elementary School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 28.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Ville Platte Elementary School's enrollment has declined 28% since 2018, when it stood at 440 (now 319). Class-load math has tightened: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 in 2025.

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