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Enrollment
349
Middle
DISTRICT 524 · STATE 440
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. TAMMANY PARISH·NCES 220165001686
L.P. Monteleone Junior High School
63000 Blue Marlin Drive, Mandeville, LA 70448 · (985) 951-8088 · St. Tammany Parish
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL349 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 70% of Louisiana public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Louisiana public middle schools
Student : Teacher
9.1:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 41.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
36%
125 students
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 70%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 163 | 47% |
| Grade 8 | 186 | 53% |
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 65% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
64.0%
LA avg 41.8% . -5.0pp since 2022
Math
48.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +1.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 1 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 64.0% | 48.0% |
| 2024-25 | 67.0% | 39.0% |
| 2023-24 | 69.0% | 48.0% |
| 2022-23 | 69.0% | 47.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
53.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.6%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like L.P. Monteleone Junior High School
L.P. Monteleone Junior High School's state test result (53.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| L.P. Monteleone Junior High School this school | 349 | 35.8% | 53.3% |
| Youngsville Middle School Youngsville | 534 | 42.1% | 47.2% |
| Boyet Junior High School Slidell | 644 | 39.8% | 42.3% |
| Maplewood Middle School Sulphur | 319 | 46.4% | 39.3% |
| Dutchtown Middle School Geismar | 605 | 39.0% | 61.5% |
| Harry M. Hurst Middle School Destrehan | 685 | 41.3% | 48.7% |
Matched among Louisiana middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where L.P. Monteleone Junior High School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In St. Tammany Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.3% | #18 of 213 | #7 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #40 of 210 ▲ 17 | #8 of 19 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.0% | #21 of 213 ▼ 6 | #7 of 19 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.0pp | #47 of 197 | #10 of 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 349 | #128 of 220 | #15 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.1:1 | #9 of 195 | #2 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.6% | #95 of 195 | #9 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 35.8% | #204 of 214 | #13 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.6% | #42 of 162 | #2 of 15 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
349
-47 (-12%) vs 2020
-27% since 2010-11, when it was 479
Student : Teacher
9.1:1
was 15.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 349 | 38.3 | 9.1:1 | 36% (125) |
| 2023-24 | 395 | 40.8 | 9.7:1 | 39% (154) |
| 2022-23 | 422 | 29.8 | 14.2:1 | 36% (152) |
| 2020-21 | 396 | 26 | 15.2:1 | 37% (147) |
| 2017-18 | 469 | 28 | 16.8:1 | 34% (159) |
| 2015-16 | 519 | 42 | 12.4:1 | 36% (186) |
| 2010-11 | 479 | 28 | 17.1:1 | 30% (143) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for L.P. Monteleone Junior High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 26% (469 to 349); teachers up 37% (28 to 38.3).
About L.P. Monteleone Junior High School
L.P. Monteleone Junior High School is a small middle school in Louisiana, with an address in Mandeville. It reported 349 students in grades 7 through 8 in 2024-25. Middle schools in Louisiana have about 440 students on average; enrollment here is 21% lower.
L.P. Monteleone Junior High School sits within St. Tammany Parish, which has 55 schools and 35,956 students.
More than half of enrollment at L.P. Monteleone Junior High School is White: 64%. Next come 17% Black, 13% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. The county population is about 74% White. The diversity index for L.P. Monteleone Junior High School is 55%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
With 38.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 9.1:1. Middle schools in Louisiana average 41.0:1, 31.9 more students per teacher than here. Roughly 36% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in St. Tammany Parish report 44%.
L.P. Monteleone Junior High School holds a B+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 70% of Louisiana public middle schools.
Compared with Louisiana schools that have similar shares of low-income students, L.P. Monteleone Junior High School's results are 5.3 points below predicted: 53.3% against 58.6%.
In the surrounding county, St. Tammany Parish, the median household earns about $81,202 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. St. Tammany Parish has 56 public schools with about 36,212 students, including L.P. Monteleone Junior High School.
L.P. Monteleone Junior High School's nearest public school is Gayle Sloan Middle School (about 2.9 miles). Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, L.P. Monteleone Junior High School is 5th of 8 nearby schools with test data.
The school is in rural territory close to an urban area, according to its NCES locale (Rural: Fringe).
Over 4 years, enrollment decreased by 47 students, from 396 to 349. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (9.1:1) than in 2020-21 (15.2:1).
L.P. Monteleone Junior High School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
St. Tammany Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
272,421
Census ACS
Median income
$81,202
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
56
36,212 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in St. Tammany Parish
- Mandeville High SchoolHigh · 2,006 students
- Slidell High SchoolHigh · 1,654 students
- Covington High SchoolHigh · 1,600 students
- Northshore High SchoolHigh · 1,518 students
- Joseph B. Lancaster Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,480 students
- Fontainebleau High SchoolHigh · 1,451 students
Other schools in Mandeville
- Mandeville High SchoolHigh · 2,006 students
- Fontainebleau High SchoolHigh · 1,451 students
- Lakeshore High SchoolHigh · 835 students
- Fontainebleau Junior High SchoolMiddle · 784 students
- Tchefuncte Middle SchoolMiddle · 682 students
- Pontchartrain Elementary SchoolElementary · 636 students
Nearby schools
- Gayle Sloan Middle School2.9 mi · 502
- Woodlake Elementary School3.3 mi · 442
- Magnolia Trace Elementary School3.4 mi · 355
- Lake Harbor Middle School3.5 mi · 582
- Marigny Elementary School3.7 mi · 422
- Chahta-Ima Elementary School4.1 mi · 319
Frequently asked questions
About L.P. Monteleone Junior High SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at L.P. Monteleone Junior High School?
L.P. Monteleone Junior High School enrolls approximately 349 students in grades 07-08.
What grades does L.P. Monteleone Junior High School serve?
L.P. Monteleone Junior High School serves grades 07-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at L.P. Monteleone Junior High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at L.P. Monteleone Junior High School is approximately 9.1:1 (38 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at L.P. Monteleone Junior High School?
Student demographics at L.P. Monteleone Junior High School are roughly 64% White, 13% Hispanic, 17% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees L.P. Monteleone Junior High School?
L.P. Monteleone Junior High School is overseen by St. Tammany Parish in St. Tammany Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.