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Fair Park Middle School
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2023-24 . % Mastery+What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 13 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level. The Louisiana average is about 42 of 100. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2022.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Fair Park Middle School
Fair Park Middle School, a mid-sized middle school in Shreveport, Louisiana, operated by Caddo Parish, teaches 469 students, covering grades 6 through 8.
Caddo Parish comprises 57 schools with combined enrollment of 32,649 students; Fair Park Middle School is among them.
In terms of who attends, Fair Park Middle School logs that nearly all students (94%) are Black. Beyond that, the school reports 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 49% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 201.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 41.0:1, putting Fair Park Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Caddo Parish runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Caddo Parish shows the typical household earns roughly $50,705 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 18%. Fair Park Middle School is one of 61 public schools in Caddo Parish (combined enrollment of about 33,851 students).
Nearest neighbor: Queensborough Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fair Park Middle School.
Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. Fair Park Middle School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fair Park Middle School has ticked down 45%, going from 848 students in 2018 to 469 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 98% to 94% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 201.3:1 in 2025.
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