Recognizing the importance of education, coordinating efforts were taken to build the Chitimacha Tribal School, a state-of-the-art pre-school through eight grade facility located in the center of the Chitimacha reservation. Students are taught the traditional language of the Chitimacha, along with the standard curriculum.

     After graduating from the Chitimacha Tribal School, reservation children attend West St. Mary High School located in Baldwin, Louisiana or Hanson Memorial High School located in Franklin, Louisiana. Those students who academically qualify are provided financial assistance and given the opportunity to pursue a college degree.

There is a scholarship program for the students attending college. Scholarship students pay back the Tribe for their schooling through extensive community service projects. They are a welcome, and continual, presence at the Tribe.

     The Chitimacha children have truly become significant contributors to an improved quality of life in the land that they have always called home. With these basic educational services now in place, Chitimacha Nation prepares to face the 21st century with hope, confidence and security.