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Enrollment
916
Middle
DISTRICT 765 · STATE 440
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BOSSIER PARISH·NCES 220027000125
Elm Grove Middle School
4301 Panther Drive, Bossier City, LA 71112 · (318) 759-2400 · Bossier Parish
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL916 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 43% 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.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-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
15.7:1
58 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 41.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
50%
461 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 | 327 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 292 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 297 | 32% |
Student demographics
61%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
48.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +0.0pp since 2022
Math
33.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +5.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2022, while math scores are up about 5 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 48.0% | 33.0% |
| 2024-25 | 46.0% | 32.0% |
| 2023-24 | 50.0% | 32.0% |
| 2022-23 | 48.0% | 28.0% |
% 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
37.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.1%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 Elm Grove Middle School
Elm Grove Middle School's state test result (37.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elm Grove Middle School this school | 916 | 50.3% | 37.2% |
| L.J. Alleman Middle School Lafayette | 890 | 46.9% | 55.2% |
| Central Middle School Central | 1,012 | 55.9% | 46.8% |
| Haughton Middle School Haughton | 993 | 50.7% | 38.5% |
| N.P. Trist Middle School Meraux | 767 | 57.5% | 37.3% |
| Little Oak Middle School Slidell | 847 | 41.4% | 52.2% |
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 Elm Grove Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Bossier Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.2% | #80 of 213 | #4 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.0% | #89 of 210 ▼ 3 | #5 of 7 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #69 of 213 ▲ 10 | #4 of 7 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.5pp | #94 of 197 | #6 of 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 916 | #6 of 220 | #2 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.7:1 | #155 of 195 | #4 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.6% | #59 of 195 | #3 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 50.3% | #176 of 214 | #5 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.2% | #120 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
916
+19 (+2%) vs 2020
+99% since 1990-91, when it was 460
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
was 21.4:1
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 | 916 | 58.3 | 15.7:1 | 50% (461) |
| 2023-24 | 903 | 58.4 | 15.5:1 | 52% (473) |
| 2022-23 | 952 | 52.4 | 18.2:1 | 57% (543) |
| 2020-21 | 897 | 42 | 21.4:1 | 25% (227) |
| 2017-18 | 1,032 | 51 | 20.2:1 | 38% (393) |
| 2015-16 | 927 | 60 | 15.4:1 | 40% (373) |
| 2010-11 | 875 | 49 | 17.9:1 | 31% (268) |
| 2000-01 | 824 | 38 | 21.7:1 | 17% (142) |
| 1990-91 | 460 | 23 | 20.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Elm Grove Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (1,032 to 916); teachers up 14% (51 to 58.3).
About Elm Grove Middle School
The public middle-grades school Elm Grove Middle School is located in Bossier City, Louisiana. The school had 916 students in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. An average school in this group (middle schools in Louisiana) has about 440 students.
District-wide, Bossier Parish has 34 schools and 22,233 students.
Roughly 56% of students at Elm Grove Middle School are White. Other groups include 25% Black, 10% Hispanic, and 7% multiracial. Elm Grove Middle School's diversity index is 61%, against a US figure of 70%.
Teachers at Elm Grove Middle School total 58.3 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 15.7:1. That is 25.3 students per teacher below the 41.0:1 average for middle schools in Louisiana. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 50%. That tracks the 53% average for public schools in Bossier Parish.
Measured against Louisiana public middle schools, Elm Grove Middle School receives a C+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 48.1% for Elm Grove Middle School. The school posts 37.2%, 11.0 points below the prediction.
Bossier Parish has about 129,789 residents, and the median household income is $69,617, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 28% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. In all, Bossier Parish has 34 public schools and roughly 22,233 students.
Sun City Elementary School is the public school closest to Elm Grove Middle School, less than a tenth of a mile away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 29.0%; Elm Grove Middle School's is 37.2%, ranking 4th of 8.
For locale, NCES codes Elm Grove Middle School as City: Small.
The school's size has been steady, with 897 students in 2020-21 and 916 in 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (15.7:1) than in 2020-21 (21.4:1).
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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
- Benton Middle SchoolMiddle · 817 students
Other schools in Bossier City
- Airline High SchoolHigh · 1,855 students
- Parkway High SchoolHigh · 1,279 students
- Apollo Elementary SchoolElementary · 756 students
- Cope Middle SchoolMiddle · 752 students
- Bossier High SchoolHigh · 654 students
- Rusheon Middle SchoolMiddle · 583 students
Nearby schools
- Sun City Elementary School0.1 mi · 492
- Bellaire Elementary School1.0 mi · 406
- Riverside Elementary School2.1 mi · 404
- Shreve Island Elementary School2.5 mi · 579
- Curtis Elementary School2.6 mi · 441
- Magnolia School of Excellence2.8 mi · 1,430
Frequently asked questions
About Elm Grove Middle SchoolHow many students attend Elm Grove Middle School?
Elm Grove Middle School enrolls approximately 916 students in grades 06-08.
Is Elm Grove Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Elm Grove Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Elm Grove Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Elm Grove Middle School is approximately 15.7:1 (58 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Elm Grove Middle School?
Elm Grove Middle School reports a student body of 56% White, 10% Hispanic, 25% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Elm Grove Middle School?
Elm Grove Middle School is overseen by Bossier Parish in Bossier Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.