Erath Middle's Carter Primeaux earns his second parish student of the year award

ERATH — The Vermilion Parish Middle School Student of the Year is from Erath Middle School.
Erath Middle School’s Carter Primeaux is in the eighth grade, and he is 14 years old.
His parents are Ryan and Marlene Primeaux, and he has a younger brother in the fourth grade.
His G.P.A. is 4.0 and he is a part of the rodeo, 4-H and Junior Beta. He wants to go to college to be an anesthesiologist. When he was in the fifth grade, Carter was the student of the year at Dozier Elementary School and won parish student of the year.
“We figure out who qualifies strictly on their GPA, and then give them the questionnaires to fill out. There is a rubric that we follow that for everything they have accomplished, they get points. Then we break that down and figure out where the break in the line is and go with our top 10, and those top 10 get to the next step, where they have something else to do. And then from that we pick our top five, and then it’s a day of interviews,” said Dana Primeaux, the principal of Erath Middle School.
Each school has one student of the year, and they compete against each other for parish student of the year. The selection process chooses well rounded students that are involved in more than just academics.
The decision process took about a month, and he found out he was chosen two weeks ago.
“I was excited,” Carter said. “That was one of the things I was main focused on.”
“I knew he would be in the running just because of his G.P.A.,” said Dana.
“Last week I wrote an essay for regional student of the year,” said Carter. “And I believe on the 22nd I go for an interview for regional student of the year.”