Central Middle School

Central Middle School operates as a medium-sized 6-8 campus in Gonzales, Louisiana, one of the schools within Ascension Parish. Current enrollment sits at 512 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Within Ascension Parish, which oversees 32 schools and 23,743 students, Central Middle School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Central Middle School lists that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 27% Black, 22% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 41.0:1, putting Central Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 54% of students at Central Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Central Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.3%, the actual is 42.3%, a residual of -3.0 points.

Across the wider county, Ascension Parish reports that the typical household earns roughly $91,549 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Ascension Parish runs 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,743 students), of which Central Middle School is one.

Central Primary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Central Middle School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Central Middle School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.7%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 22%: 653 students in 2018 compared to 512 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 56% to 45% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

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