Clearwood Junior High School

Located at 130 Clearwood Drive, in Slidell, Louisiana, Clearwood Junior High School is a mid-sized junior high that enrolls 539 students (grades 4 through 8), run under St. Tammany Parish. Enrollment runs roughly 23% larger than the state mean of about 440.

St. Tammany Parish comprises 55 schools with combined enrollment of 35,956 students; Clearwood Junior High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Clearwood Junior High School logs that the largest single group is White at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 30% Black, 12% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

On the income-and-resources front, Clearwood Junior High School reports 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 41.0:1, putting Clearwood Junior High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against St. Tammany Parish (around 44%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Clearwood Junior High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 45.9%; actual is 31.0%, a gap of -14.9 points.

In the broader community, census data for St. Tammany Parish shows median household income runs about $81,202, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, St. Tammany Parish runs 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,212 students), of which Clearwood Junior High School is one.

Whispering Forest Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Clearwood Junior High School at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 38.4%.

Clearwood Junior High School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Clearwood Junior High School has contracted 21%, going from 678 students in 2018 to 539 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 64% to 52% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.

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