Fisher Middle/High School

Located at 2590 Barataria Blvd, in Marrero, Louisiana, Fisher Middle/High School is an intimate high school that educates 498 students (grades 6 through 12), overseen by Jefferson Parish. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 711 students each, so Fisher Middle/High School sits 30% leaner than that benchmark.

Jefferson Parish comprises 74 schools with combined enrollment of 46,790 students; Fisher Middle/High School is among them.

On demographics, Fisher Middle/High School records that 74% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 50% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.0:1 average. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Fisher Middle/High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.2%, the actual is 39.7%, a residual of -0.6 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Jefferson Parish put median household earnings sit near $65,252, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Jefferson Parish runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 47,983 students), of which Fisher Middle/High School is one.

The closest other public school is Harry S Truman School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Fisher Middle/High School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 20.5%.

Fisher Middle/High School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 504 students in 2018 compared to 498 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 81% to 74% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 25.2:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

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