Carter C. Raymond Junior High School

Carter C. Raymond Junior High School is an one-room-style K-5 school in Lecompte, Louisiana, operated by Rapides Parish. The school works with 124 students in grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 453 students per school, that is 73% leaner than typical.

Rapides Parish runs 43 schools in total, collectively educating 21,340 students. Carter C. Raymond Junior High School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Carter C. Raymond Junior High School records that the largest single group is Black, at 78% of enrollment. Other groups include 11% White, 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

On the income-and-resources front, Carter C. Raymond Junior High School reports 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. About 97% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Rapides Parish runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Carter C. Raymond Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 14.9%, the actual is 15.7%, a residual of +0.7 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Rapides Parish put the typical household earns roughly $54,967 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Rapides Parish's 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,481 students), Carter C. Raymond Junior High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Rapides High School, around 1.6 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Carter C. Raymond Junior High School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.3%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 22%: 160 students in 2018 compared to 124 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 87% to 78% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 7.0:1 today.

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