Golden Meadow Middle School

Located at 124 North 3rd Street, in Golden Meadow, Louisiana, Golden Meadow Middle School is a close-knit 6-8 campus that instructs 318 students (grades 6 through 8), part of Lafourche Parish. Enrollment runs roughly 28% below the state mean of about 440.

Within Lafourche Parish, which oversees 30 schools and 13,326 students, Golden Meadow Middle School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Golden Meadow Middle School records that 55% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 29% Hispanic, 7% Native American, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 41.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Lafourche Parish's rate of about 63%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Golden Meadow Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.0%; this one delivers 41.0%.

In the area at large, Lafourche Parish reports that median household earnings sit near $63,135, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lafourche Parish runs 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,426 students), of which Golden Meadow Middle School is one.

Golden Meadow Upper Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Golden Meadow Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Golden Meadow Middle School at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 45.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 11%: 359 students in 2018 compared to 318 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 10% to 29% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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