Bayou Lacombe Middle

Bayou Lacombe Middle is an intimate middle school in Lacombe, Louisiana, operated by St. Tammany Parish. The school works with 209 students in grades 4 through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 53% below the state mean of about 440.

St. Tammany Parish comprises 55 schools with combined enrollment of 35,956 students; Bayou Lacombe Middle is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bayou Lacombe Middle lists that 46% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 30% Black, 17% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, St. Tammany Parish as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 41.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against St. Tammany Parish (around 44%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bayou Lacombe Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.7%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (St. Tammany Parish) reports that median household earnings sit near $81,202, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, St. Tammany Parish runs 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,212 students), of which Bayou Lacombe Middle is one.

Chahta-Ima Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bayou Lacombe Middle comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.7%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 14%: 183 students in 2018 compared to 209 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 42% to 30% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

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