Vermilion Parish School Board

Vermilion Parish School Board (VPSB) is a school district headquartered in Abbeville, Louisiana, United States. It was established in 1876.

The district serves Vermilion Parish, with its official territory matching parish boundaries,[1] and operates most public schools there. However, public schools serving Delcambre are located in Vermilion Parish but are operated by the Iberia Parish School System.[2] The Vermilion Parish district pays money to the Iberia parish district to educate Delcambre students in Vermilion Parish. In 2000 the Iberia Parish district signed an inter-district agreement with the Vermilion Parish district over those payments.[3] Another such agreement was signed in 2022.[4]

Vermilion Parish is headed by Superintendent Jerome Puyau. Puyau's leadership style has been called intimidating and in January 2018 a teacher was handcuffed during a public discussion of his pay raise.[5][6]

  1. ^ "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Vermilion Parish, LA" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved September 5, 2024. - Text list
  2. ^ "Iberia Parish schools for this district". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved September 5, 2024.
  3. ^ "VERMILION PARISH SCHOOL BOARD Abbeville, Louisiana Financial Report Year Ended June 30, 2002" (PDF). Government of Louisiana. p. 31 (PDF p. 34/76).
  4. ^ "IPSB unanimously agrees to pact with the Vermilion Parish board regarding students across parish lines". The Daily Iberian. January 7, 2022. Retrieved September 5, 2024.
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