Live Oak Junior High

Set in Watson, Louisiana, Live Oak Junior High is a moderately sized 6-8 campus, overseen by Livingston Parish. It educates 654 students across grades 7 through 8. That puts it 49% bigger than the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 440 students.

Within Livingston Parish, which oversees 43 schools and 27,209 students, Live Oak Junior High is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Live Oak Junior High reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%). Other groups include 10% Black, 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Livingston Parish overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.3:1. The state averages around 41.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 69% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Live Oak Junior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.0%, the actual is 42.3%, a residual of +7.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, Livingston Parish reports that median household earnings sit near $80,122, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Livingston Parish's 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,209 students), Live Oak Junior High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Live Oak Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Live Oak Junior High comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Live Oak Junior High's enrollment has fell 11% since 2018, when it stood at 734 (now 654). Over the same period, the White share declined from 90% to 80%. Class-load math has fell: from 22.9:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

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