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Enrollment
622
Middle
DISTRICT 456 · STATE 440
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TERREBONNE PARISH·NCES 220174001348
Evergreen Junior High School
5000 West Main Street, Houma, LA 70360 · (985) 303-4815 · Terrebonne Parish
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL622 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 68% 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.
- A-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
17.3:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 41.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
74%
459 students
DISTRICT 75% · 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 7 | 307 | 49% |
| Grade 8 | 315 | 51% |
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · 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
47.0%
LA avg 41.8% . -2.0pp since 2022
Math
27.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +4.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 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 2 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 4 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 47.0% | 27.0% |
| 2024-25 | 47.0% | 27.0% |
| 2023-24 | 52.0% | 26.0% |
| 2022-23 | 49.0% | 23.0% |
% 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
35.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.2%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% 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 Evergreen Junior High School
Evergreen Junior High School's state test result (35.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evergreen Junior High School this school | 622 | 73.8% | 35.7% |
| Juban Parc Junior High School Denham Springs | 564 | 74.8% | 41.3% |
| Houma Junior High School Houma | 673 | 71.2% | 38.8% |
| Martha Vinyard Elementary School Ponchatoula | 589 | 71.3% | 20.3% |
| Cecilia Junior High School Cecilia | 576 | 72.0% | 24.5% |
| 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 Evergreen Junior High School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Terrebonne Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.7% | #83 of 213 | #5 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #115 of 210 ▼ 9 | #6 of 7 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #78 of 213 ▼ 1 | #3 of 7 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.0pp | #116 of 197 | #3 of 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 622 | #49 of 220 | #2 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.3:1 | #185 of 195 | #7 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.1% | #7 of 195 | #3 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 73.8% | #94 of 214 | #4 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.4% | #85 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
622
-99 (-14%) vs 2020
-34% since 1990-91, when it was 939
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
was 21.9:1
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 | 622 | 36 | 17.3:1 | 74% (459) |
| 2023-24 | 665 | 42 | 15.8:1 | 64% (426) |
| 2022-23 | 699 | 32.4 | 21.6:1 | 63% (442) |
| 2020-21 | 721 | 33 | 21.9:1 | 46% (333) |
| 2017-18 | 744 | 38.2 | 19.5:1 | 70% (519) |
| 2015-16 | 693 | N/A | N/A | 67% (466) |
| 2010-11 | 1,082 | 63 | 17.2:1 | 59% (639) |
| 2000-01 | 1,005 | 58 | 17.3:1 | 47% (472) |
| 1990-91 | 939 | 55 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Evergreen Junior High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (744 to 622); teachers down 6% (38.2 to 36).
About Evergreen Junior High School
The public middle-grades school Evergreen Junior High School is located in Houma, Louisiana. Students in grades 7 through 8 attend, and enrollment is 622 students. The typical figure for middle schools in Louisiana is about 440 students.
Terrebonne Parish has 30 schools; together they serve 15,168 students.
Federal enrollment data show White students as the largest group at Evergreen Junior High School, at 45%. Other groups include 28% Black, 13% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 3% Native American. By comparison, Terrebonne Parish residents are about 65% White. Pick two students at random and there is a 69% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
A ratio of 17.3:1 comes from the school's 36 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is 23.7 students per teacher below the 41.0:1 average for middle schools in Louisiana. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 74% in 2024-25. For comparison, public schools in Terrebonne Parish average 73%.
The allk12 Grade for Evergreen Junior High School is B+. Compared with Louisiana public middle schools, the school scored higher than 68% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Evergreen Junior High School's average proficiency rate on state tests of 35.7% is 4.5 points above the 31.2% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Terrebonne Parish show that the median household income is $64,836, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 19%, and roughly 12% of residents are in poverty. Besides Evergreen Junior High School, Terrebonne Parish has 31 other public schools.
The nearest other public school, Oakshire Elementary School, is about 1.1 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 40.2%; Evergreen Junior High School's is 35.7%, ranking 6th of 7.
Evergreen Junior High School is coded as Rural: Fringe in federal locale data.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 99 fewer students in 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (17.3:1) than in 2020-21 (21.9:1).
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Terrebonne Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
106,186
Census ACS
Median income
$64,836
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
32
15,201 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Terrebonne Parish
- Terrebonne High SchoolHigh · 1,346 students
- H. L. Bourgeois High SchoolHigh · 1,289 students
- South Terrebonne High SchoolHigh · 868 students
- Ellender Memorial High SchoolHigh · 819 students
- Mulberry Elementary SchoolElementary · 789 students
- Houma Junior High SchoolMiddle · 673 students
Other schools in Houma
- Terrebonne High SchoolHigh · 1,346 students
- Ellender Memorial High SchoolHigh · 819 students
- Mulberry Elementary SchoolElementary · 789 students
- Houma Junior High SchoolMiddle · 673 students
- Acadian Elementary SchoolElementary · 654 students
- Coteau-Bayou Blue Elementary SchoolElementary · 627 students
Other Evergreen Junior High schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Evergreen Junior High. Evergreen Junior High School is the 2nd largest of the 4.
- Evergreen Jr High SchoolHillsboro, OR · 728 students
- Evergreen Jr HighSALT LAKE CITY, UT · 600 students
- Evergreen Junior HighKalispell, MT · 285 students
Nearby schools
- Oakshire Elementary School1.1 mi · 576
- H. L. Bourgeois High School1.2 mi · 1,289
- Coteau-Bayou Blue Elementary School1.5 mi · 627
- Broadmoor Elementary School2.3 mi · 587
- Lisa Park Elementary School3.2 mi · 574
- Terrebonne High School4.6 mi · 1,346
Frequently asked questions
About Evergreen Junior High SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Evergreen Junior High School?
Evergreen Junior High School enrolls approximately 622 students in grades 07-08.
What age range does Evergreen Junior High School serve?
Evergreen Junior High School serves students from grade 07 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Evergreen Junior High School?
Approximately 17.3:1 students per teacher at Evergreen Junior High School.
How diverse is Evergreen Junior High School?
Evergreen Junior High School reports a student body of 45% White, 13% Hispanic, 28% Black, 1% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Evergreen Junior High School public or private?
Evergreen Junior High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Terrebonne Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.