Benton Middle School

As a roomy junior high in Benton, Louisiana, Benton Middle School instructs 817 students from grades 6 through 8, part of Bossier Parish. Compared to the state average of about 440 students per school, that is 86% bigger than typical.

Bossier Parish comprises 34 schools with combined enrollment of 22,233 students; Benton Middle School is among them.

Demographically, Benton Middle School records that White students make up the majority at 75%. Beyond that, the school reports 14% Black, 7% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Bossier Parish as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 41.0:1 average. About 30% 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 Bossier Parish (around 53%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Benton Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.4%, the actual is 51.3%, a residual of -11.1 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Bossier Parish) records that the typical household earns roughly $69,617 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Benton Middle School is one of 34 public schools in Bossier Parish (combined enrollment of about 22,233 students).

The closest other public school is Benton Intermediate School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Benton Middle School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 51.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Benton Middle School has declined 21%, going from 1,030 students in 2018 to 817 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 20.1:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 today.

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