Grant Junior High School

Grant Junior High School operates as a moderately sized middle-grades school in Dry Prong, Louisiana, operated by Grant Parish. Current enrollment sits at 438 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Grant Parish runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 2,871 students. Grant Junior High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Grant Junior High School records that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 14% Black, 3% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. The state averages around 41.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Grant Junior High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.2%; this one delivers 26.3%.

Around the school, census data for Grant Parish shows the typical household earns roughly $64,016 per year, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Grant Junior High School is one of 8 public schools in Grant Parish (combined enrollment of about 2,871 students).

Grant High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Grant Junior High School at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 39.0%.

Grant Junior High School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 18%: 370 students in 2018 compared to 438 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

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