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Enrollment
287
Middle
DISTRICT 342 · STATE 440
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BEAUREGARD PARISH·NCES 220018000082
DeRidder Junior High School
415 Frusha Drive, DeRidder, LA 70634 · (337) 463-9083 · Beauregard Parish
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL287 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 21% of Louisiana public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
13.8:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 41.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
145 students
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 70%
Community
1
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 7 | 147 | 51% |
| Grade 8 | 140 | 49% |
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 40% · 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
44.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +4.0pp since 2022
Math
21.0%
LA avg 34.2% . -11.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 11 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 44.0% | 21.0% |
| 2024-25 | 38.0% | 26.0% |
| 2023-24 | 37.0% | 28.0% |
| 2022-23 | 40.0% | 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
31.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.0%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 48% 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 DeRidder Junior High School
DeRidder Junior High School's state test result (31.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeRidder Junior High School this school | 287 | 50.5% | 31.2% |
| Pine Wood Elementary School DeRidder | 348 | 58.0% | 28.7% |
| S. P. Arnett Middle School Westlake | 374 | 51.9% | 45.5% |
| Maplewood Middle School Sulphur | 319 | 46.4% | 39.3% |
| Folsom Junior High School Folsom | 183 | 49.7% | 47.8% |
| Bayou Blue Middle School Houma | 396 | 55.8% | 44.3% |
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 DeRidder Junior High School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.2% | #106 of 213 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.0% | #139 of 210 ▼ 31 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #89 of 213 ▲ 28 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.5pp | #27 of 197 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 287 | #163 of 220 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #110 of 195 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.5% | #42 of 195 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 50.5% | #175 of 214 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -51.1% | #6 of 162 |
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
287
-266 (-48%) vs 2020
-65% since 1990-91, when it was 815
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 17.8:1
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 | 287 | 20.7 | 13.8:1 | 51% (145) |
| 2023-24 | 501 | 35.4 | 14.1:1 | 49% (245) |
| 2022-23 | 506 | 29.3 | 17.3:1 | 64% (324) |
| 2020-21 | 553 | 31 | 17.8:1 | 48% (267) |
| 2017-18 | 587 | 31.7 | 18.5:1 | 55% (321) |
| 2015-16 | 583 | N/A | N/A | 57% (335) |
| 2010-11 | 598 | 36 | 16.6:1 | 49% (295) |
| 2000-01 | 615 | 37 | 16.6:1 | 47% (290) |
| 1990-91 | 815 | 48 | 17.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DeRidder Junior High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 51% (587 to 287); teachers down 35% (31.7 to 20.7).
About DeRidder Junior High School
A low-enrollment middle-grades school in DeRidder, Louisiana, DeRidder Junior High School is part of Beauregard Parish. It has an enrollment of 287 students in grades 7 through 8. Across middle schools in Louisiana, the average enrollment is about 440.
Beauregard Parish counts 13 schools and 5,915 students, including DeRidder Junior High School.
More than half of enrollment at DeRidder Junior High School is White: 54%. Next come 24% Black, 10% multiracial, and 9% Hispanic. The county population is about 80% White. The diversity index for DeRidder Junior High School is 63%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at DeRidder Junior High School is 13.8:1, based on 20.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, middle schools in Louisiana average 41.0:1. Lunch program data show 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The figure for public schools in Beauregard Parish is close, at 53%.
Among Louisiana public middle schools, DeRidder Junior High School outscored 21%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
On BeatsExpectations, which compares test results with what a school's student poverty level would predict, DeRidder Junior High School ranks in the bottom 10% in Louisiana. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 31.2%, against a prediction of 48.0%.
For Beauregard Parish, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $65,944 a year, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 12% of people live in poverty. The county has 13 public schools and about 5,915 students.
Among nearby public schools, K.R. Hanchey Elementary School is closest at about 0.2 miles. Other public schools within five miles number 6. Among 6 nearby schools that report test results, DeRidder Junior High School ranks 4th on proficiency.
The school is in a town some distance from an urbanized area, according to its NCES locale (Town: Distant).
DeRidder Junior High School reported 553 students in 2020-21 and 287 in 2024-25. Changes that large sometimes follow a school adding or dropping grades, so the two figures may not cover the same grades. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 13.8:1, from 17.8:1.
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Beauregard Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
36,676
Census ACS
Median income
$65,944
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
17%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
13
5,915 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Beauregard Parish
- South Beauregard High SchoolHigh · 775 students
- South Beauregard Elementary SchoolElementary · 644 students
- DeRidder High SchoolHigh · 621 students
- DeRidder Elementary SchoolElementary · 490 students
- Merryville High SchoolCombined · 470 students
- East Beauregard Elementary SchoolElementary · 425 students
Other schools in DeRidder
- DeRidder High SchoolHigh · 621 students
- DeRidder Elementary SchoolElementary · 490 students
- East Beauregard Elementary SchoolElementary · 425 students
- East Beauregard High SchoolHigh · 417 students
- K.R. Hanchey Elementary SchoolElementary · 353 students
- Carver Elementary SchoolElementary · 348 students
Nearby schools
- K.R. Hanchey Elementary School0.2 mi · 353
- DeRidder High School0.4 mi · 621
- DeRidder Elementary School0.5 mi · 490
- Pine Wood Elementary School0.5 mi · 348
- Carver Elementary School1.9 mi · 348
- Rosepine Elementary School4.9 mi · 856
Frequently asked questions
About DeRidder Junior High SchoolHow many students attend DeRidder Junior High School?
DeRidder Junior High School enrolls approximately 287 students in grades 07-08.
Is DeRidder Junior High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
DeRidder Junior High School is a middle school covering grades 07-08.
How many students per teacher at DeRidder Junior High School?
Approximately 13.8:1 students per teacher at DeRidder Junior High School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at DeRidder Junior High School?
At DeRidder Junior High School, the student body is approximately 54% White, 9% Hispanic, 24% Black, 1% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is DeRidder Junior High School public or private?
DeRidder Junior High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Beauregard Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.