Vermilion Parish School Board will be a nine-member board

When 2023 rolls around, the Vermilion Parish School Board will officially consist of a nine-member school board.
The school board will have an odd number of school board members for the first time ever. On Wednesday, the eight school board members voted 8-0 to add an extra district, bringing the total number of school board members to nine.
The last time the school board changed the number of school board members was around 1990, when it went from a 14-member school board to an eight-member school board.
The North Vermilion area will now have two school board members.
The new district will be called District I, and the new board member’s district will include Indian Bayou Elementary and Meaux Elementary.
District B will have North Vermilion Middle, North Vermilion High School and Cecil Picard Elementary in its district.
Qualifying for all school board seats will be at the end of July, and the regular election is in November.
The nine members will be sworn in at the first school board meeting in January 2023.
Each of the nine school board districts will have around 6,366 residents. However, some districts will have fewer than 6,366 residents while others will have more.
The district with the most population will be District B, with 6,927, 561 more people than it should have.
The district with less than 6,366 people is District A, with a population of 5,802 people, or 564 less than it should have. This district covers all of Gueydan and goes into a small part of the town of Kaplan.
District D, located south of Abbeville and Kaplan, which consists of Forked Island, Pecan Island and Intracoastal City, has a population of 6,484 people.
Abbeville will continue to have two representatives. District E (population of 6,451) is the west side of Abbeville, along with the Comeaux Park Area, behind Vermilion Catholic High School, plus the area by Abbeville High School.
District F (population of 6,580) will consist of north and south of Charity Street up to Herod Elementary and north and south of Martin Luther King Drive.
District H (population 6,205) is all of Erath and Delcambre and south of Erath.
District G (population 6,063) is north of Erath and Delcambre, up to the Lafayette line. It also stops at the east end of the Abbeville City limits.