J.D. Meisler Middle School

Located at 3700 Cleary Avenue, in Metairie, Louisiana, J.D. Meisler Middle School is a roomy junior high that enrolls 679 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Jefferson Parish. Compared to the state average of about 440 students per school, that is 54% larger than typical.

Jefferson Parish comprises 74 schools with combined enrollment of 46,790 students; J.D. Meisler Middle School is among them.

Demographically, J.D. Meisler Middle School reports that 68% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest is composed of 18% Black, 9% White, 3% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

Looking at school resources, J.D. Meisler Middle School records 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 41.0:1, putting J.D. Meisler Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Jefferson Parish runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, J.D. Meisler Middle School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 47.3%; this one comes in at 18.0%, -29.3 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, census data for Jefferson Parish shows the typical household earns roughly $65,252 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. J.D. Meisler Middle School is one of 86 public schools in Jefferson Parish (combined enrollment of about 47,983 students).

The closest other public school is Haynes Academy School for Advanced Studies, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, J.D. Meisler Middle School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 36.1%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at J.D. Meisler Middle School has declined 16%, going from 811 students in 2018 to 679 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 48% to 68% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 in 2025.

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