Edgar Martin Middle School

Edgar Martin Middle School operates as a mid-tier middle-grades school in Lafayette, Louisiana, part of Lafayette Parish. Current enrollment sits at 641 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 46% bigger than the state mean of about 440.

Lafayette Parish runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 29,396 students. Edgar Martin Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Edgar Martin Middle School shows that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 20% Black, 16% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 41.0:1 average. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Lafayette Parish's rate of about 59%.

After controlling for student poverty, Edgar Martin Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 53.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.3%.

In the broader community, census data for Lafayette Parish shows the typical household earns roughly $67,451 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Lafayette Parish's 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,903 students), Edgar Martin Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Broadmoor Elementary School, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Edgar Martin Middle School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.4%.

Edgar Martin Middle School operates from an urban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Edgar Martin Middle School's enrollment has climbed 6% since 2018, when it stood at 607 (now 641). The White share of enrollment fell from 61% to 51% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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