Alexandria Middle Magnet School

Alexandria Middle Magnet School is one of the mid-tier intermediate schools in Alexandria, Louisiana, operated by Rapides Parish, with 469 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Rapides Parish runs 43 schools in total, collectively educating 21,340 students. Alexandria Middle Magnet School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Alexandria Middle Magnet School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (92%). The remainder breaks down as 4% White. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Alexandria Middle Magnet School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 41.0:1, putting Alexandria Middle Magnet School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Rapides Parish (around 77%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Alexandria Middle Magnet School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 16.1%, the actual is 16.7%, a residual of +0.5 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Rapides Parish) logs that the typical household earns roughly $54,967 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Rapides Parish runs 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,481 students), of which Alexandria Middle Magnet School is one.

Nearest neighbor: D.F. Huddle Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Alexandria Middle Magnet School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Alexandria Middle Magnet School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 28.9%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Alexandria Middle Magnet School has edged down 14%, going from 544 students in 2018 to 469 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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