Enrollment
348
Middle
DISTRICT 391 · STATE 440
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CITY OF MONROE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 220108000788
Carroll Junior High School
2945 Renwick Street, Monroe, LA 71201 · (318) 322-1683 · Ouachita Parish
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL348 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 13% of Louisiana public middle schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Louisiana public middle schools
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 41.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
328 students
DISTRICT 86% · STATE 70%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 156 | 45% |
| Grade 8 | 192 | 55% |
Student demographics
7%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 31% · STATE 65% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
16.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +3.0pp since 2022
Math
6.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +1.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 16 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 6 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 1 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 16.0% | 6.0% |
| 2024-25 | 16.0% | N/A |
| 2023-24 | 15.0% | 5.0% |
| 2022-23 | 13.0% | 5.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
9.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
16.4%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 10% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 16% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Louisiana's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Carroll Junior High School
Carroll Junior High School's state test result (9.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carroll Junior High School this school | 348 | 94.3% | 9.8% |
| Richwood Junior High School Monroe | 347 | 93.4% | 13.0% |
| Martin Luther King Junior High School Monroe | 350 | 92.0% | 14.7% |
| Arthur F. Smith Middle Magnet School Alexandria | 362 | 97.5% | 18.0% |
| Opelousas Junior High School Opelousas | 314 | 93.0% | 14.5% |
| Lowery Middle School Donaldsonville | 277 | 91.3% | 14.0% |
Matched among Louisiana middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Carroll Junior High School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Ouachita Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 9.8% | #204 of 213 | #12 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 6.0% | #208 of 210 | #12 of 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 16.0% | #203 of 213 ▼ 5 | #12 of 12 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.0pp | #103 of 197 | #10 of 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 348 | #130 of 220 | #9 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #87 of 195 | #8 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 7.3% | #190 of 195 | #10 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.3% | #10 of 214 | #1 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +12.3% | #12 of 40 | #3 of 6 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
348
+2 (+1%) vs 2020
-31% since 1990-91, when it was 506
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 19.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 348 | 26.4 | 13.2:1 | 94% (328) |
| 2023-24 | 386 | 30.4 | 12.7:1 | 91% (351) |
| 2022-23 | 335 | 20.3 | 16.5:1 | 87% (293) |
| 2020-21 | 346 | 18 | 19.2:1 | 83% (288) |
| 2017-18 | 310 | 15.9 | 19.5:1 | 91% (281) |
| 2015-16 | 300 | N/A | N/A | 88% (264) |
| 2010-11 | 336 | 31 | 10.8:1 | 91% (305) |
| 2000-01 | 538 | 34 | 15.8:1 | 78% (422) |
| 1990-91 | 506 | 35 | 14.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Carroll Junior High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 12% (310 to 348); teachers up 66% (15.9 to 26.4).
About Carroll Junior High School
Carroll Junior High School is a public small middle school in Monroe, Louisiana. Students in grades 7 through 8 attend, and enrollment is 348 students. The typical figure for middle schools in Louisiana is about 440 students.
City of Monroe School District (19 schools, 8,033 students) runs Carroll Junior High School.
Black students are the large majority at Carroll Junior High School, with 96% of enrollment. By comparison, Ouachita Parish residents are about 37% Black. The chance that two students picked at random at Carroll Junior High School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 7%.
Dividing enrollment by its 26.4 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 13.2:1. The average ratio among middle schools in Louisiana is 41.0:1, higher than at this school. Carroll Junior High School reports 94% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. On average, public schools in Ouachita Parish report 67%.
allk12 grades Carroll Junior High School a D. The grade compares the school only with Louisiana public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Carroll Junior High School would score about 16.4%. It scores 9.8%, 6.6 points below that figure.
Within Ouachita Parish, median household income is about $54,688, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 29%, and roughly 18% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Ouachita Parish number 59 and enroll about 25,952.
The school nearest to Carroll Junior High School is Carroll High School, at a distance of about 0.1 miles. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 6 closest schools with test data, this one included, Carroll Junior High School ranks 5th on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is City: Small: the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Carroll Junior High School had 346 students in 2020-21 and 348 in 2024-25, nearly the same. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (13.2:1) than in 2020-21 (19.2:1).
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Ouachita Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
158,480
Census ACS
Median income
$54,688
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
18%
Below federal line
Schools in county
59
25,952 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in City of Monroe School District
- Neville High SchoolHigh · 1,042 students
- Wossman High SchoolHigh · 635 students
- Sallie Humble Elementary SchoolElementary · 579 students
- Carroll High SchoolHigh · 577 students
- Lexington Elementary SchoolElementary · 547 students
- Neville Junior High SchoolMiddle · 474 students
Other schools in Monroe
- Ouachita Parish High SchoolHigh · 1,112 students
- Neville High SchoolHigh · 1,042 students
- Wossman High SchoolHigh · 635 students
- Sallie Humble Elementary SchoolElementary · 579 students
- Carroll High SchoolHigh · 577 students
- Lexington Elementary SchoolElementary · 547 students
Other Carroll Junior High schools
One other US public school is named Carroll Junior High. Carroll Junior High School is the largest of the 2.
- Carroll Junior High SchoolFlora, IN · 143 students
Nearby schools
- Carroll High School0.1 mi · 577
- New Vision Learning Academy0.2 mi · 227
- Roy Neal Shelling Sr. Elementary0.9 mi · 391
- Sherrouse School1.0 mi · 106
- Carver Elementary School1.4 mi · 395
- J.S. Clark Magnet Elementary School1.5 mi · 458
Frequently asked questions
About Carroll Junior High SchoolHow large is Carroll Junior High School?
Carroll Junior High School enrolls approximately 348 students in grades 07-08.
What grades does Carroll Junior High School serve?
Carroll Junior High School serves grades 07-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Carroll Junior High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Carroll Junior High School is approximately 13.2:1 (26 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Carroll Junior High School?
Carroll Junior High School reports a student body of 2% White, 1% Hispanic, 96% Black, 1% Two or more.
Is Carroll Junior High School public or private?
Carroll Junior High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by City of Monroe School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.