Caroline Dormon Junior High School

Caroline Dormon Junior High School operates as a tight-knit elementary school in Woodworth, Louisiana, operated by Rapides Parish. Current enrollment sits at 362 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 453 students per school, that is 20% below typical.

Within Rapides Parish, which oversees 43 schools and 21,340 students, Caroline Dormon Junior High School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Caroline Dormon Junior High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). Beyond that, the school reports 4% multiracial, 3% Black, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Rapides Parish as a whole is about 61% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Caroline Dormon Junior High School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Rapides Parish runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Caroline Dormon Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.6%, the actual is 62.0%, a residual of +8.4 points.

In the broader community, Rapides Parish reports 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 Caroline Dormon Junior High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Martin Park Elementary School, around 6.0 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Caroline Dormon Junior High School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.5%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Caroline Dormon Junior High School has remained close to its prior level, going from 363 students in 2018 to 362 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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