On August 8th at its regularly scheduled meeting the Lafayette Parish School Board re-named Plantation Elementary. Plantation Elementary has been re-named Corporal Michael Middlebrook Elementary.
Corporal Michael Paul Middlebrook was a member of the Lafayette Police Department for nine years, having previously served as a military policeman in the U. S. Army. Corporal Middlebrook was shot and killed while serving the community of Lafayette, as he was responding to a shooting at a local store. Plantation Elementary has been re-named as a memorial to his service.