Ferriday Junior High School

Ferriday Junior High School, a modestly sized middle-grades school in Ferriday, Louisiana, run under Concordia Parish, educates 241 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 45% leaner than the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 440 students.

Across the 10 schools in Concordia Parish (2,911 students total), Ferriday Junior High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Ferriday Junior High School records that nearly all students (89%) are Black; the rest breaks down as 8% White. The wider county runs roughly 39% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.7:1. The state averages around 41.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 94% of students at Ferriday Junior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Concordia Parish's rate of about 80%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Ferriday Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 16.8%, the actual is 9.0%, a residual of -7.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Concordia Parish indicate median household earnings sit near $39,943, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 25% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Concordia Parish's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,396 students), Ferriday Junior High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Ferriday Upper Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 20%: 302 students in 2018 compared to 241 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 in 2025.

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