Folsom Junior High School

Folsom Junior High School is one of the intimate middle-grades schools in Folsom, Louisiana, operated by St. Tammany Parish, with 183 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 440 students each, so Folsom Junior High School sits 58% leaner than that benchmark.

St. Tammany Parish runs 55 schools in total, collectively educating 35,956 students. Folsom Junior High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Folsom Junior High School lists that 68% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 17% Black, 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Folsom Junior High School shows 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 41.0:1, putting Folsom Junior High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Folsom Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 46.3%, a residual of -2.1 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for St. Tammany Parish put median household earnings sit near $81,202, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, St. Tammany Parish runs 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,212 students), of which Folsom Junior High School is one.

Folsom Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Folsom Junior High School comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 40.3%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 8%: 199 students in 2018 compared to 183 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 76% to 68% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

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