F. K. White Middle School

Located at 1000 E McNeese, in Lake Charles, Louisiana, F. K. White Middle School is a mid-sized middle-grades school that enrolls 614 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by Calcasieu Parish. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 440 students each, so F. K. White Middle School sits 40% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 56 schools in Calcasieu Parish (27,851 students total), F. K. White Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, F. K. White Middle School logs that the most-represented group is Black (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 27% White, 21% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 23% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.8:1. The state averages around 41.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 63% of students at F. K. White Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, F. K. White Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.1%, the actual is 31.7%, a residual of -7.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Calcasieu Parish indicate the typical household earns roughly $67,564 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. F. K. White Middle School is one of 61 public schools in Calcasieu Parish (combined enrollment of about 30,278 students).

Nearest neighbor: Southwest Louisiana Charter Academy, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts F. K. White Middle School at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 24.9%.

F. K. White Middle School operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 604 students in 2018 compared to 614 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 10% to 21% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 8.8:1 in 2025.

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