BASIS Baton Rouge Materra Campus

BASIS Baton Rouge Materra Campus is one of the heavily attended all-grades campuss in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, overseen by East Baton Rouge Parish, with 888 students on its rolls from grades K through 10. That puts it 69% bigger than the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 527 students.

Within East Baton Rouge Parish, which oversees 83 schools and 40,083 students, BASIS Baton Rouge Materra Campus is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, BASIS Baton Rouge Materra Campus lists that 49% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest is composed of 22% Black, 16% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

On the resource side, On paper, BASIS Baton Rouge Materra Campus has 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 1741.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 52.1:1 average. Roughly 33% of students at BASIS Baton Rouge Materra Campus qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against East Baton Rouge Parish (around 70%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BASIS Baton Rouge Materra Campus sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.0%; this one delivers 68.7%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for East Baton Rouge Parish indicate median household earnings sit near $63,071, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, East Baton Rouge Parish runs 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students), of which BASIS Baton Rouge Materra Campus is one.

The closest other public school is Woodlawn Middle School, roughly 1.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BASIS Baton Rouge Materra Campus. On composite proficiency, BASIS Baton Rouge Materra Campus comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 38.1%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site. BASIS Baton Rouge Materra Campus is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.