Good Hope Middle School

Good Hope Middle School is one of the moderately sized intermediate schools in West Monroe, Louisiana, one of the schools within Ouachita Parish, with 601 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 37% above the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 440 students.

Ouachita Parish runs 36 schools in total, collectively educating 17,435 students. Good Hope Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Good Hope Middle School lists that 70% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 20% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 56%.

On the resource side, Good Hope Middle School shows 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 41.0:1 average. Roughly 49% of students at Good Hope Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Ouachita Parish (around 67%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Good Hope Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.7%; this one delivers 45.0%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Ouachita Parish indicate median household income runs about $54,688, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 18%. Good Hope Middle School is one of 59 public schools in Ouachita Parish (combined enrollment of about 25,952 students).

The closest other public school is Kiroli Elementary School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Good Hope Middle School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 50.9%.

Good Hope Middle School operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 3%: 581 students in 2018 compared to 601 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 75% to 70%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.