Belle Rose Middle School

Belle Rose Middle School is one of the minimally staffed intermediate schools in Belle Rose, Louisiana, part of Assumption Parish, with 77 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 83% smaller than the state mean of about 440.

Assumption Parish runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 2,701 students. Belle Rose Middle School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Belle Rose Middle School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (83%). Beyond that, the school records 8% White, 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Assumption Parish as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.8:1. The state averages around 41.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Assumption Parish's rate of about 64%.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Belle Rose Middle School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 24.7%; actual is 11.3%, a gap of -13.3 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Assumption Parish put median household earnings sit near $51,423, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Assumption Parish runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,701 students), of which Belle Rose Middle School is one.

Belle Rose Primary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Belle Rose Middle School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 21.9%.

Belle Rose Middle School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Belle Rose Middle School's enrollment has shrank 49% since 2018, when it stood at 150 (now 77). Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 89% to 83%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 in 2025.

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