Midway Professional Development Center

Midway Professional Development Center is one of the close-knit elementary campuss in Shreveport, Louisiana, one of the schools within Caddo Parish, with 234 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 48% below the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 453 students.

Caddo Parish runs 57 schools in total, collectively educating 32,649 students. Midway Professional Development Center is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Midway Professional Development Center reports that 92% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest comes out to 4% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Caddo Parish as a whole is about 49% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.0:1, putting Midway Professional Development Center tighter than the state norm the norm. About 91% 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, Caddo Parish runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Midway Professional Development Center performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 18.7%, the actual is 13.3%, a residual of -5.4 points.

In the broader community, Caddo Parish reports that the typical household earns roughly $50,705 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 18%. Midway Professional Development Center is one of 61 public schools in Caddo Parish (combined enrollment of about 33,851 students).

The closest other public school is Bethune/Oak Park Elementary, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Midway Professional Development Center. On composite proficiency, Midway Professional Development Center comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 23.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Midway Professional Development Center's enrollment has declined 24% since 2018, when it stood at 307 (now 234). The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 97% to 92% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.

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