Carolyn Park Middle

Carolyn Park Middle is a middle school of tight-knit scale in Slidell, Louisiana, overseen by St. Tammany Parish, enrolling 233 students in grades 4 through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 47% leaner than the state mean of about 440.

Within St. Tammany Parish, which oversees 55 schools and 35,956 students, Carolyn Park Middle is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Carolyn Park Middle shows that Black students make up the majority at 55%. Beyond that, the school reports 21% White, 16% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 12% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 41.0:1 average. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against St. Tammany Parish (around 44%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Carolyn Park Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.7%, the actual is 36.0%, a residual of +5.3 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for St. Tammany Parish indicate the typical household earns roughly $81,202 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Carolyn Park Middle is one of 56 public schools in St. Tammany Parish (combined enrollment of about 36,212 students).

Nearest neighbor: Bayou Woods Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Carolyn Park Middle. On composite proficiency, Carolyn Park Middle comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 27.4%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Carolyn Park Middle has fell 19%, going from 286 students in 2018 to 233 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 32% to 21%. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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