Students at Indian Bayou Elementary School, with the help of the Indian Bayou Volunteer Fire Department and Vermilion Parish Sheriff's Office, picked up 18 bags of trash on Thursday.
North Vermilion High: 706 We ve never had an elementary that big, Winters said. We just don t normally have schools that big. It s a scary thought.
It s scary, she said, because the infrastructure is not set up to take care of that many kids. The schools have been making it work with portable buildings and staggered lunchtimes in the cafeteria.. It s a hotspot to build
Census data show that Maurice has grown significantly over the last 10 years. Its population more than doubled 824 people in 2010 to 1,711 in 2019 as did the number of homes, from 325 to 660 over the same period.
The percent of school-aged residents in the population also increased, with 28.4% of people in the city under the age of 18 in 2019.