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Larose-Cut Off Middle School
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2023-24 . % Mastery+What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 32. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2022, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Louisiana's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Larose-Cut Off Middle School
Located at 13356 West Main Street, in Larose, Louisiana, Larose-Cut Off Middle School is a middle-of-the-pack middle school that teaches 430 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by Lafourche Parish.
Lafourche Parish comprises 30 schools with combined enrollment of 13,326 students; Larose-Cut Off Middle School is among them.
In terms of who attends, Larose-Cut Off Middle School lists that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 15% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Black, 3% Native American.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 41.0:1, putting Larose-Cut Off Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 54% of students at Larose-Cut Off Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Lafourche Parish's rate of about 63%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Larose-Cut Off Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.1%, the actual is 46.3%, a residual of +1.2 points.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Lafourche Parish put the typical household earns roughly $63,135 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Lafourche Parish's 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,426 students), Larose-Cut Off Middle School is one campus in the mix.
South Larose Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Larose-Cut Off Middle School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.5%.
The campus sits in a small-town setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Larose-Cut Off Middle School's enrollment has declined 16% since 2018, when it stood at 512 (now 430). Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.
Inside the community feed, members of the Larose-Cut Off Middle School community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
Lafourche Parish at a glance
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