Enrollment
145
Middle
DISTRICT 385 · STATE 440
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JACKSON PARISH·NCES 220078000557
Jonesboro-Hodge Middle School
440 Old Winnfield Highway, Jonesboro, LA 71251 · (318) 259-6611 · Jackson Parish
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL145 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 2% of Louisiana public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Louisiana public middle schools
Student : Teacher
8.6:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 41.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
118 students
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 70%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 51 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 49 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 45 | 31% |
Student demographics
42%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 65% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Jonesboro-Hodge Middle School→Jonesboro-Hodge High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Jackson Parish. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
18.0%
LA avg 41.8% . -3.0pp since 2022
Math
8.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +1.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 8 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 1 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 18.0% | 8.0% |
| 2024-25 | 14.0% | 6.0% |
| 2023-24 | 12.0% | 7.0% |
| 2022-23 | 21.0% | 7.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of LA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
9.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 10% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 26% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Jonesboro-Hodge Middle School
Jonesboro-Hodge Middle School's state test result (9.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jonesboro-Hodge Middle School this school | 145 | 81.4% | 9.8% |
| Plaisance Middle School Opelousas | 176 | 81.3% | 24.7% |
| East Feliciana Middle School Clinton | 137 | 84.7% | 20.7% |
| B. Edward Boudreaux Middle School Baldwin | 150 | 90.0% | 27.8% |
| Sixth Ward Elementary School Vacherie | 269 | 82.5% | 24.8% |
| Helix Legal Academy Baton Rouge | 127 | 86.6% | 9.0% |
Matched among Louisiana middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Jonesboro-Hodge Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 9.8% | #203 of 213 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 8.0% | #197 of 210 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.0% | #199 of 213 ▲ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.0pp | #55 of 197 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 145 | #209 of 220 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.4% | #59 of 214 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -36.7% | #15 of 162 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
145
-15 (-9%) vs 2020
-67% since 1990-91, when it was 439
Student : Teacher
8.6:1
was 13.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 145 | 16.9 | 8.6:1 | 81% (118) |
| 2023-24 | 155 | 15.5 | 10.0:1 | 81% (126) |
| 2022-23 | 162 | 11.3 | 14.4:1 | 77% (125) |
| 2020-21 | 160 | 12 | 13.3:1 | 91% (145) |
| 2017-18 | 229 | 17 | 13.4:1 | 87% (199) |
| 2015-16 | 290 | 30 | 9.7:1 | 85% (247) |
| 2010-11 | 287 | 25 | 11.5:1 | 84% (242) |
| 2000-01 | 312 | 22 | 14.2:1 | 68% (213) |
| 1990-91 | 439 | 28 | 15.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Jonesboro-Hodge Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 37% (229 to 145); teachers down 1% (17 to 16.9).
About Jonesboro-Hodge Middle School
Jonesboro-Hodge Middle School is a middle-grades school in Jonesboro, Louisiana, and it is part of Jackson Parish. Students in grades 6 through 8 make up the school's enrollment of 145 students. By comparison, middle schools in Louisiana enroll about 440 students on average.
Jackson Parish oversees Jonesboro-Hodge Middle School and 4 other schools, with 1,927 students in total.
Black students are 72% of those enrolled at Jonesboro-Hodge Middle School. Beyond that, enrollment is 23% White and 5% multiracial. In Jackson Parish overall, about 24% of residents are Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 42, compared with 70 nationally.
Jonesboro-Hodge Middle School lists 16.9 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 8.6 students per teacher. Across middle schools in Louisiana, the average ratio is 41.0:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 81% of the student body. The gap from the 61% average for public schools in Jackson Parish is 20 points.
On the allk12 Grade, Jonesboro-Hodge Middle School lands at F, ahead of 2% of Louisiana public middle schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results, 9.8%, is 15.9 points below the 25.7% the model predicts from its free or reduced-price lunch share. That result is in the bottom 10% of Louisiana schools.
The school is in Jackson Parish, where the median household earns about $44,925 a year, about 15% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 19% of residents are in poverty. Across Jackson Parish, 5 public schools serve about 1,927 students.
Jonesboro-Hodge Elementary School is the nearest public school to Jonesboro-Hodge Middle School, about 0.7 miles away. Within five miles of Jonesboro-Hodge Middle School, there are 2 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Jonesboro-Hodge Middle School is 8th of 8 on proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Town: Distant, meaning it is in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 145, down from 160 in 2020-21. The number of students per teacher dropped from 13.3 to 8.6 over 4 years.
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Jackson Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
14,884
Census ACS
Median income
$44,925
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
15%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
19%
Below federal line
Schools in county
5
1,927 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Jackson Parish
- Quitman High SchoolCombined · 695 students
- Weston High SchoolCombined · 598 students
- Jonesboro-Hodge Elementary SchoolElementary · 291 students
- Jonesboro-Hodge High SchoolHigh · 198 students
Other schools in Jonesboro
- Weston High SchoolCombined · 598 students
- Jonesboro-Hodge Elementary SchoolElementary · 291 students
- Jonesboro-Hodge High SchoolHigh · 198 students
Nearby schools
- Jonesboro-Hodge Elementary School0.7 mi · 291
- Jonesboro-Hodge High School1.0 mi · 198
- Weston High School5.9 mi · 598
- Quitman High School7.6 mi · 695
- Dodson High School11.4 mi · 283
- Saline High School16.3 mi · 303
Frequently asked questions
About Jonesboro-Hodge Middle SchoolHow large is Jonesboro-Hodge Middle School?
Jonesboro-Hodge Middle School enrolls approximately 145 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Jonesboro-Hodge Middle School serve?
Jonesboro-Hodge Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Jonesboro-Hodge Middle School have?
Jonesboro-Hodge Middle School employs 17 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.6:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Jonesboro-Hodge Middle School?
At Jonesboro-Hodge Middle School, the student body is approximately 23% White, 72% Black, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Jonesboro-Hodge Middle School?
Jonesboro-Hodge Middle School is overseen by Jackson Parish in Jackson Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.