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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Cope Middle School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
752
Middle
DISTRICT 765 · STATE 440
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BOSSIER PARISH·NCES 220027001573
Cope Middle School
4814 Shed Road, Bossier City, LA 71111 · (318) 549-5380 · Bossier Parish
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL752 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 36% 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.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-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
15.9:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 41.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
440 students
DISTRICT 56% · 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 6 | 232 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 269 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 251 | 33% |
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
46.0%
LA avg 41.8% . -5.0pp since 2022
Math
35.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +2.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 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 5 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 2 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 46.0% | 35.0% |
| 2024-25 | 42.0% | 32.0% |
| 2023-24 | 40.0% | 30.0% |
| 2022-23 | 51.0% | 33.0% |
% 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
33.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.2%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 Cope Middle School
Cope Middle School's state test result (33.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cope Middle School this school | 752 | 58.5% | 33.2% |
| Ruston Junior High School Ruston | 585 | 57.8% | 29.5% |
| N.P. Trist Middle School Meraux | 767 | 57.5% | 37.3% |
| Slidell Junior High School Slidell | 724 | 60.6% | 32.8% |
| F. K. White Middle School Lake Charles | 614 | 62.9% | 34.0% |
| Ponchatoula Junior High School Ponchatoula | 723 | 66.8% | 22.7% |
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 Cope Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Bossier Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.2% | #91 of 213 | #5 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #82 of 210 ▲ 5 | #4 of 7 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #79 of 213 ▲ 17 | #5 of 7 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.5pp | #52 of 197 | #1 of 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 752 | #23 of 220 | #5 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #160 of 195 | #5 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.2% | #20 of 195 | #1 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.5% | #151 of 214 | #3 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.7% | #151 of 162 | N/A |
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
752
-119 (-14%) vs 2020
+58% since 1990-91, when it was 475
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
was 20.3:1
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 | 752 | 47.4 | 15.9:1 | 59% (440) |
| 2023-24 | 847 | 49.2 | 17.2:1 | 57% (480) |
| 2022-23 | 836 | 42 | 19.9:1 | 58% (488) |
| 2020-21 | 871 | 43 | 20.3:1 | 31% (266) |
| 2017-18 | 781 | 38 | 20.6:1 | 42% (331) |
| 2015-16 | 787 | 45 | 17.5:1 | 42% (328) |
| 2010-11 | 692 | 39 | 17.7:1 | 38% (264) |
| 2000-01 | 535 | 31 | 17.3:1 | 30% (159) |
| 1990-91 | 475 | 27 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cope Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (781 to 752); teachers up 25% (38 to 47.4).
About Cope Middle School
Cope Middle School is a large middle school for students in Bossier City, Louisiana. The school runs grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 752 students. That compares with an average of about 440 students for middle schools in Louisiana.
Bossier Parish has 34 schools and 22,233 students, and Cope Middle School is one of those schools.
No group is above 50% at Cope Middle School; the largest is Black, at 44%. The school is also 35% White, 13% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 24%. The diversity index for Cope Middle School is 66%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
There are 47.4 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 15.9:1. Compared with the 41.0:1 average for middle schools in Louisiana, this school's ratio is lower. On the income side, 59% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Cope Middle School holds a C+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 36% of Louisiana public middle schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Cope Middle School is 9.1 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 33.2% actual, 42.2% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Louisiana.
The school's county is Bossier Parish. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $69,617, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Bossier Parish's 34 public schools enroll about 22,233 students and include Cope Middle School.
Johnny Gray Jones Youth Shelter & Detention Center sits less than a tenth of a mile from Cope Middle School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 32.2%, lower than Cope Middle School's 33.2%.
Cope Middle School is coded as City: Small in federal locale data.
Enrollment decreased 14% over 4 years, reaching 752 in 2024-25. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 20.3:1 to 15.9:1.
On allk12, people connected to Cope Middle School can post about special education services, counseling, and support programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Bossier Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
129,789
Census ACS
Median income
$69,617
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
34
22,233 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bossier Parish
- Airline High SchoolHigh · 1,855 students
- Benton High SchoolHigh · 1,515 students
- Haughton High SchoolHigh · 1,360 students
- Parkway High SchoolHigh · 1,279 students
- Haughton Middle SchoolMiddle · 993 students
- Elm Grove Middle SchoolMiddle · 916 students
Other schools in Bossier City
- Airline High SchoolHigh · 1,855 students
- Parkway High SchoolHigh · 1,279 students
- Elm Grove Middle SchoolMiddle · 916 students
- Apollo Elementary SchoolElementary · 756 students
- Bossier High SchoolHigh · 654 students
- Rusheon Middle SchoolMiddle · 583 students
Other Cope Middle schools
One other US public school is named Cope Middle. Cope Middle School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Cope MiddleRedlands, CA · 1,191 students
Nearby schools
- Johnny Gray Jones Youth Shelter & Detention Center0.1 mi · 9
- Meadowview Elementary School0.9 mi · 440
- W.T. Lewis Elementary School1.5 mi · 558
- Stockwell Place Elementary School1.7 mi · 496
- Greenacres Middle School2.4 mi · 543
- R. V. Kerr Elementary School2.5 mi · 367
Frequently asked questions
About Cope Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Cope Middle School?
Cope Middle School enrolls approximately 752 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Cope Middle School serve?
Cope Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Cope Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Cope Middle School is approximately 15.9:1 (47 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Cope Middle School?
At Cope Middle School, the student body is approximately 35% White, 13% Hispanic, 44% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Cope Middle School in?
Cope Middle School is part of Bossier Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.