Little Oak Middle School

Little Oak Middle School operates as a big middle-grades school in Slidell, Louisiana, part of St. Tammany Parish. Current enrollment sits at 847 students spanning grades 4 through 6. That puts it 93% above the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 440 students.

St. Tammany Parish runs 55 schools in total, collectively educating 35,956 students. Little Oak Middle School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Little Oak Middle School logs that White students make up the majority at 59%. The remainder looks like 20% Black, 15% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 41.0:1 average. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Little Oak Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.3%, the actual is 52.3%, a residual of -2.0 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for St. Tammany Parish indicate median household income runs about $81,202, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, St. Tammany Parish runs 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,212 students), of which Little Oak Middle School is one.

Boyet Junior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Little Oak Middle School. On composite proficiency, Little Oak Middle School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Little Oak Middle School has decreased 22%, going from 1,079 students in 2018 to 847 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 69% to 59% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 22.8:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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