Donnie Bickham Middle School

As a heavily attended middle-grades school in Shreveport, Louisiana, Donnie Bickham Middle School educates 800 students from grades 4 through 8, operated by Caddo Parish. Compared to the state average of about 440 students per school, that is 82% bigger than typical.

Across the 57 schools in Caddo Parish (32,649 students total), Donnie Bickham Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Donnie Bickham Middle School logs that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 40% Black, 10% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school reports having 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 41.0:1, putting Donnie Bickham Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Donnie Bickham Middle School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 35.7%; this one comes in at 19.0%, -16.7 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Caddo Parish put median household earnings sit near $50,705, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 18%. Donnie Bickham Middle School is one of 61 public schools in Caddo Parish (combined enrollment of about 33,851 students).

Northwood High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Donnie Bickham Middle School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 19.3%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Donnie Bickham Middle School's enrollment has declined 6% since 2018, when it stood at 851 (now 800). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 57% to 47%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 22.1:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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