Lee Road Junior High School

Located at 79131 Highway 40, in Covington, Louisiana, Lee Road Junior High School is a sizable primary school that caters to 727 students (grades pre-K through 8), part of St. Tammany Parish. That puts it 60% above the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 453 students.

St. Tammany Parish comprises 55 schools with combined enrollment of 35,956 students; Lee Road Junior High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lee Road Junior High School records that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Roughly 41% of students at Lee Road Junior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Lee Road Junior High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 54.9%; this one delivers 45.7%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for St. Tammany Parish put median household earnings sit near $81,202, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across St. Tammany Parish's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,212 students), Lee Road Junior High School is one campus in the mix.

Louisiana Key Academy Northshore is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lee Road Junior High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 42.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Lee Road Junior High School's enrollment has edged down 11% since 2018, when it stood at 813 (now 727). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 95% to 90%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.