Mansfield Middle School

As a close-knit junior high in Mansfield, Louisiana, Mansfield Middle School instructs 331 students from grades 5 through 8, run under DeSoto Parish. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 440 students each, so Mansfield Middle School sits 25% below that benchmark.

Across the 9 schools in DeSoto Parish (4,923 students total), Mansfield Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mansfield Middle School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (90%). Beyond that, the school lists 4% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 35% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 41.0:1 average. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, De Soto Parish runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mansfield Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.9%, the actual is 19.7%, a residual of -2.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for De Soto Parish indicate median household income runs about $48,578, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across De Soto Parish's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,923 students), Mansfield Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mansfield Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mansfield Middle School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 37.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mansfield Middle School has ticked down 25%, going from 439 students in 2018 to 331 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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