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Enrollment
510
Middle
DISTRICT 524 · STATE 440
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. TAMMANY PARISH·NCES 220165001567
Mandeville Junior High School
639 Carondelet Street, Mandeville, LA 70448 · (985) 626-4428 · St. Tammany Parish
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL510 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 71% of Louisiana public middle schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-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
11.2:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 41.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
117 students
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 70%
Community
5
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 | 257 | 50% |
| Grade 8 | 253 | 50% |
Student demographics
38%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
72.0%
LA avg 41.8% . -4.0pp since 2022
Math
54.0%
LA avg 34.2% . -5.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 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 4 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 5 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 72.0% | 54.0% |
| 2024-25 | 70.0% | 61.0% |
| 2023-24 | 72.0% | 56.0% |
| 2022-23 | 76.0% | 59.0% |
% 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
62.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.9%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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 Mandeville Junior High School
Mandeville Junior High School's state test result (62.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mandeville Junior High School this school | 510 | 22.9% | 62.8% |
| Tchefuncte Middle School Mandeville | 682 | 25.5% | 67.7% |
| Madisonville Junior High School Madisonville | 647 | 21.2% | 54.3% |
| Gayle Sloan Middle School Mandeville | 502 | 21.7% | 64.3% |
| Lake Harbor Middle School Mandeville | 582 | 28.4% | 65.3% |
| Benton Middle School Benton | 817 | 30.1% | 50.3% |
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 Mandeville Junior High School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In St. Tammany Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.8% | #9 of 213 | #4 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #21 of 210 ▼ 9 | #4 of 19 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #7 of 213 ▲ 2 | #1 of 19 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -4.5pp | #21 of 197 | #4 of 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 510 | #80 of 220 | #11 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #42 of 195 | #5 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.6% | #151 of 195 | #15 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.9% | #212 of 214 | #17 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.0% | #106 of 162 | #12 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
510
-32 (-6%) vs 2020
-34% since 1990-91, when it was 775
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 16.4:1
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 | 510 | 45.5 | 11.2:1 | 23% (117) |
| 2023-24 | 542 | 46.5 | 11.7:1 | 24% (129) |
| 2022-23 | 552 | 34.1 | 16.2:1 | 26% (141) |
| 2020-21 | 542 | 33 | 16.4:1 | 21% (115) |
| 2017-18 | 593 | 32.3 | 18.3:1 | 18% (109) |
| 2015-16 | 675 | 53 | 12.7:1 | 23% (154) |
| 2010-11 | 672 | 45 | 14.9:1 | 18% (124) |
| 2000-01 | 644 | 49 | 13.1:1 | 10% (64) |
| 1990-91 | 775 | 40 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mandeville Junior High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (593 to 510); teachers up 41% (32.3 to 45.5).
About Mandeville Junior High School
Mandeville Junior High School is a middle school with a street address in Mandeville, Louisiana. It educates 510 students in grades 7 through 8.
Mandeville Junior High School is part of a district of 55 schools: St. Tammany Parish, with 35,956 students.
A majority of students at Mandeville Junior High School, 78%, are White. The next largest groups are 9% Hispanic, 7% Black, 3% multiracial, and 2% Asian. By the diversity index, Mandeville Junior High School comes in at 38%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.2:1 at Mandeville Junior High School, with 45.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 41.0:1 average for middle schools in Louisiana is higher than this school's figure. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 23%. Across public schools in St. Tammany Parish, the average is 44%.
The allk12 Grade for Mandeville Junior High School is B+. Compared with Louisiana public middle schools, the school scored higher than 71% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Test results at Mandeville Junior High School are 5.1 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (62.8% actual, 67.9% predicted).
County data help place the school in context: in St. Tammany Parish, median household income is about $81,202, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. Mandeville Junior High School is among the 56 public schools in St. Tammany Parish.
The shortest distance from Mandeville Junior High School to another public school is about 0.4 miles, to Mandeville Elementary School. The five-mile area around Mandeville Junior High School holds at least 8 other public schools. Mandeville Junior High School comes in 3rd of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Small: inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The number of students declined from 542 to 510 over 4 years. Students per teacher fell from 16.4 in 2020-21 to 11.2 in 2024-25.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for Mandeville Junior High School covering things like enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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
- Mandeville Elementary School0.4 mi · 508
- Woodlake Elementary School1.2 mi · 442
- Mandeville High School1.9 mi · 2,006
- Magnolia Trace Elementary School2.2 mi · 355
- Pontchartrain Elementary School2.3 mi · 636
- Marigny Elementary School2.3 mi · 422
Frequently asked questions
About Mandeville Junior High SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Mandeville Junior High School?
Mandeville Junior High School enrolls approximately 510 students in grades 07-08.
What age range does Mandeville Junior High School serve?
Mandeville Junior High School serves students from grade 07 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Mandeville Junior High School?
Approximately 11.2:1 students per teacher at Mandeville Junior High School.
How diverse is Mandeville Junior High School?
Mandeville Junior High School reports a student body of 78% White, 9% Hispanic, 7% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Mandeville Junior High School in?
Mandeville Junior High School is part of St. Tammany Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.