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Enrollment
539
Middle
DISTRICT 524 · STATE 440
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. TAMMANY PARISH·NCES 220165001566
Clearwood Junior High School
130 Clearwood Drive, Slidell, LA 70458 · (985) 641-8200 · St. Tammany Parish
GRADES 04–08MIDDLE23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL539 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 27% of Louisiana public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-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
11.8:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 41.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
53%
287 students
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 70%
Community
5
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 4 | 96 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 82 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 118 | 22% |
| Grade 7 | 109 | 20% |
| Grade 8 | 134 | 25% |
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · 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
40.0%
LA avg 41.8% . -6.0pp since 2022
Math
36.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +4.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 4 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 40.0% | 36.0% |
| 2024-25 | 42.0% | 33.0% |
| 2023-24 | 40.0% | 28.0% |
| 2022-23 | 46.0% | 32.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of LA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
32.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.0%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 46% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Clearwood Junior High School
Clearwood Junior High School's state test result (32.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clearwood Junior High School this school | 539 | 53.2% | 32.8% |
| St. Amant Middle School St. Amant | 532 | 55.5% | 45.2% |
| Galvez Middle School Prairieville | 655 | 55.9% | 49.2% |
| N.P. Trist Middle School Meraux | 767 | 57.5% | 37.3% |
| Broussard Middle School Broussard | 465 | 55.1% | 38.3% |
| Ruston Junior High School Ruston | 585 | 57.8% | 29.5% |
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 Clearwood Junior High School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In St. Tammany Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.8% | #97 of 213 | #15 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #79 of 210 ▲ 6 | #12 of 19 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #113 of 213 ▼ 13 | #16 of 19 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.0pp | #58 of 197 | #11 of 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 539 | #70 of 220 | #10 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.8:1 | #54 of 195 | #6 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.3% | #45 of 195 | #5 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.2% | #168 of 214 | #8 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.5% | #65 of 162 | #5 of 15 |
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
539
-10 (-2%) vs 2020
-28% since 1990-91, when it was 747
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
was 15.7:1
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 | 539 | 45.7 | 11.8:1 | 53% (287) |
| 2023-24 | 667 | 50.2 | 13.3:1 | 55% (367) |
| 2022-23 | 699 | 36.2 | 19.3:1 | 53% (373) |
| 2020-21 | 549 | 35 | 15.7:1 | 56% (306) |
| 2017-18 | 678 | 35.2 | 19.2:1 | 50% (339) |
| 2015-16 | 623 | 49 | 12.7:1 | 53% (330) |
| 2010-11 | 605 | 39 | 15.5:1 | 52% (312) |
| 2000-01 | 588 | 40 | 14.7:1 | 29% (169) |
| 1990-91 | 747 | 45 | 16.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Clearwood Junior High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (678 to 539); teachers up 30% (35.2 to 45.7).
About Clearwood Junior High School
Clearwood Junior High School is a mid-sized middle school in Slidell, Louisiana, one of the schools in St. Tammany Parish. Enrollment totals 539 students across grades 4 through 8. That puts enrollment 23% above the 440-student average for middle schools in Louisiana.
District-wide, St. Tammany Parish has 55 schools and 35,956 students.
More than half of the students at Clearwood Junior High School are White (52%). Beyond that, enrollment is 30% Black, 12% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. In St. Tammany Parish overall, about 74% of residents are White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 62%.
With 45.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 11.8:1. Middle schools in Louisiana average 41.0:1, 29.2 more students per teacher than here. Roughly 53% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 44% average for public schools in St. Tammany Parish.
Among Louisiana public middle schools, Clearwood Junior High School outscored 27%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
Clearwood Junior High School is a bottom-10% school in Louisiana on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 32.8% against a predicted 46.0%.
The school's county is St. Tammany Parish. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $81,202 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. Public schools in St. Tammany Parish number 56, with about 36,212 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Whispering Forest Elementary School, is about 0.7 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. By average proficiency, Clearwood Junior High School is 5th among 8 schools close by.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Small, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 549 in 2020-21 and 539 in 2024-25. The school's ratio dropped from 15.7:1 to 11.8:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on athletics, class schedules, and weather closures here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
St. Tammany Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
272,421
Census ACS
Median income
$81,202
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
56
36,212 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in St. Tammany Parish
- Mandeville High SchoolHigh · 2,006 students
- Slidell High SchoolHigh · 1,654 students
- Covington High SchoolHigh · 1,600 students
- Northshore High SchoolHigh · 1,518 students
- Joseph B. Lancaster Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,480 students
- Fontainebleau High SchoolHigh · 1,451 students
Other schools in Slidell
- Slidell High SchoolHigh · 1,654 students
- Northshore High SchoolHigh · 1,518 students
- Salmen High SchoolHigh · 1,091 students
- W.L. Abney ElementaryElementary · 936 students
- Little Oak Middle SchoolMiddle · 847 students
- Henry Mayfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 749 students
Nearby schools
- Whispering Forest Elementary School0.7 mi · 453
- Boyet Junior High School1.6 mi · 644
- Alton Elementary School1.6 mi · 208
- Little Oak Middle School1.8 mi · 847
- Bonne Ecole Elementary School1.8 mi · 651
- Slidell High School2.1 mi · 1,654
Frequently asked questions
About Clearwood Junior High SchoolHow large is Clearwood Junior High School?
Clearwood Junior High School enrolls approximately 539 students in grades 04-08.
What grades does Clearwood Junior High School serve?
Clearwood Junior High School serves grades 04-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Clearwood Junior High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Clearwood Junior High School is approximately 11.8:1 (46 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Clearwood Junior High School?
Student demographics at Clearwood Junior High School are roughly 52% White, 12% Hispanic, 30% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Clearwood Junior High School public or private?
Clearwood Junior High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by St. Tammany Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.