Fifth Ward Junior High School

Located at 81419 Highway 21, in Bush, Louisiana, Fifth Ward Junior High School is a moderately sized primary school that caters to 440 students (grades pre-K through 8), overseen by St. Tammany Parish.

Across the 55 schools in St. Tammany Parish (35,956 students total), Fifth Ward Junior High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Fifth Ward Junior High School logs that nearly all students (92%) are White. Other groups include 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Fifth Ward Junior High School has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Fifth Ward Junior High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Fifth Ward Junior High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.6%; this one delivers 46.7%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for St. Tammany Parish indicate median household earnings sit near $81,202, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Fifth Ward Junior High School is one of 56 public schools in St. Tammany Parish (combined enrollment of about 36,212 students).

Lee Road Junior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 9.4 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, Fifth Ward Junior High School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.7%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 5%: 461 students in 2018 compared to 440 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

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