Catahoula Elementary closed after judge rules out unitary status Posted at 4:08 PM, Jun 22, 2021 and last updated 2021-06-23 00:03:29-04 CATAHOULA, La. â A federal judge has denied the St. Martin Parish School Board's request for unitary status in their decades-old desegregation case, and updated the order and the requirements the board must meet - and that update includes the ordered closure of Catahoula Elementary School. "The District is ORDERED to close Catahoula Elementary to grades K to 5 beginning in the 2021-2022 school year," Monday's ruling from U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Foote states. "Those students should instead be assigned to ELC (Early Learning Center) or SMP (St. Martinville Primary)."