Bayou Boeuf Elementary School

Bayou Boeuf Elementary School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	4138 LA 307
Nearest city	Thibodaux, Louisiana
Coordinates	29°52′05″N 90°35′38″W / 29.86795°N 90.59391°W / 29.86795; -90.59391
Area	less than one acre
Built	1904 (1904)
NRHP reference No.	04000082[1]
Added to NRHP	February 25, 2004

Bayou Boeuf Elementary School (BBES) is an elementary school in unincorporated Lafourche Parish, Louisiana,^[2] east of the Kraemer (Bayou Boeuf) census-designated place.^[3] It serves residents of the Ward 6 Area of the parish,^[4] including Bayou Boeuf and Choctaw.^[3][5][6] 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.^[1]

It was established between 1904 and 1905.^[7] It occupied a 7-acre (2.8 ha) plot.^[8]

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. As of 2016^[update] 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.^[4] This building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 25, 2004.^{[9][10][11][12]}

Students at Bayou Boeuf matriculate to Sixth Ward Middle School and Thibodaux High School.^[6]

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana

• Cortez, Martin L. (2004). Dessus Le Bayou Boeuf: The History of Bayou Boeuf/Kraemer, Louisiana. Ann Arbor, MI: Cushing-Malloy.

• Bayou Boeuf Elementary School
• Bayou Boeuf Elementary School (bbes.lpsd.k12.la.us) at the Wayback Machine (archive index)