L.J. Alleman Middle School

L.J. Alleman Middle School is a sizable middle-grades school in Lafayette, Louisiana, operated by Lafayette Parish. The school hosts 890 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 440 students each, so L.J. Alleman Middle School sits 102% bigger than that benchmark.

Lafayette Parish runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 29,396 students. L.J. Alleman Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, L.J. Alleman Middle School lists that 52% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 32% Black, 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 63% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, L.J. Alleman Middle School logs 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.3:1. The state averages around 41.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 47% of students at L.J. Alleman Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Lafayette Parish's rate of about 59%.

With demographic context factored in, L.J. Alleman Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.5%, the actual is 53.3%, a residual of +2.8 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Lafayette Parish shows the typical household earns roughly $67,451 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lafayette Parish runs 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,903 students), of which L.J. Alleman Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Woodvale Elementary School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around L.J. Alleman Middle School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), L.J. Alleman Middle School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 46.9%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at L.J. Alleman Middle School has contracted 19%, going from 1,099 students in 2018 to 890 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 37% to 32%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 20.3:1 today.

On the community side, members of the L.J. Alleman Middle School community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.