The top reported proficiency rate is 42% in English language arts. The lowest is 33% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Boothville-venice Elementary School
Boothville-Venice Elementary School serves students from pre-kindergarten through sixth grade in the small, unincorporated community of Boothville, Louisiana, a census-designated place on the West Bank of the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish. The school is a regular public school within the Plaquemines Parish school system, and it operates in a building that was one of the few structures to survive Hurricane Katrina with minimal damage, reopened in a later year as an elementary school after having previously served as a high school. The community itself is low-density and rural, strung along Louisiana Highway 23, where the built environment mixes homes with industrial and marine infrastructure tied to the fishing and oil-and-gas industries. The Boothville Heliport, used for helicopter transport to offshore oil rigs, is a local landmark. There is no traditional downtown, and the school sits within the community rather than on a separated campus.
The student body is small and demographically mixed. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting the economic context of a community whose population has declined since Hurricane Katrina and where recovery has been slow. The largest racial or ethnic group is white students, followed by Black students and Asian students, with smaller shares of Hispanic students and students of two or more races. The school serves a narrow grade band and does not extend into high school, so there is no graduation rate to report.
On the Louisiana LEAP 2025 assessments, the school’s proficiency rates across tested subjects fall below the average for other districts in Plaquemines Parish. In English language arts, the share of students scoring at the proficient level or above was higher than in math, science, or social studies. Math and science proficiency rates were similar to each other, and social studies fell in a comparable range. This pattern placed the school in the bottom quartile compared with other districts in the parish on an overall proficiency index that averages results across subjects and grades. Because the comparison uses parish-level district data and this is a single elementary school within that district, the gap is worth noting. A parent may want to ask the school about specific instructional supports in math and science, where the data show room for growth alongside a stronger result in reading.
The school has full participation in testing, and its enrollment is consistent across grades from kindergarten through sixth, with a smaller pre-kindergarten group. No information was provided on special education or English learner populations, so those details are unavailable. The Plaquemines Parish district itself did not have publicly reported recent changes or strategic priorities available for this account, so that context is absent rather than presumed.
For a family considering this school, the setting is remote and rural, shaped by the Mississippi River delta economy and a slow post-hurricane recovery. The academic profile points to a school where most students are not yet reaching proficient benchmarks, and where a parent would want a direct conversation with the school about curriculum, intervention programs, and supports in core subjects. The school is the only elementary option in this stretch of the parish for this grade band, and it serves as a civic anchor in a community where civic institutions are few. The housing stock in Boothville is modest and the area has seen population loss, so families moving in would be choosing the location for reasons tied to work in the fishing or energy sectors rather than for a wide array of school choices.
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