Bayou Boeuf Elementary School (BBES) is an elementary school in unincorporated Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, east of the Kraemer (Bayou Boeuf) census-designated place. It serves residents of the Ward 6 Area of the parish, including Bayou Boeuf and Choctaw. It is a part of Lafourche Parish Public Schools.

Its original 1904 school building, the "Little Red Schoolhouse," was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 25, 2004.

Bayou Boeuf Elementary School

History

It was established between 1904 and 1905. It occupied a plot.

Bayou Boeuf Elementary School

In 1983 J. Kelly Nix, the Louisiana Superintendent of Education, declared the original Bayou Boeuf Elementary school building, also known as the "Little Red Schoolhouse", as the oldest continuously used one-room schoolhouse in Louisiana. kindergarten students have classes held in that building. On March 27, 2004, a 100-year anniversary party was scheduled to be held at the schoolhouse. This building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 25, 2004.

Bayou Boeuf Elementary School

Students at Bayou Boeuf matriculate to Sixth Ward Middle School and Thibodaux High School.

See also

National Register of Historic Places listings in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana

References

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Bayou Boeuf Elementary School

Schools in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana

Public elementary schools in Louisiana

School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Louisiana

National Register of Historic Places in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana

1904 establishments in Louisiana

Educational institutions established in 1904

One-room schoolhouses in Louisiana