Natchitoches Jr. High School

Natchitoches Jr. High School is an intermediate school of compact scale in Natchitoches, Louisiana, overseen by Natchitoches Parish, educateing 371 students in grades 7 through 8.

Natchitoches Jr. High School is one of 13 schools operated by Natchitoches Parish, a district that serves 4,792 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Natchitoches Jr. High School reports that 84% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 9% White, 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 40% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Natchitoches Jr. High School shows 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 41.0:1 average. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Natchitoches Parish's rate of about 84%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Natchitoches Jr. High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 14.2%; this one delivers 22.7%.

In the broader community, census data for Natchitoches Parish shows the typical household earns roughly $46,292 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 18%. Across Natchitoches Parish's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,064 students), Natchitoches Jr. High School is one campus in the mix.

L.P. Vaughn Elementary & Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Natchitoches Jr. High School comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.8%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 32%: 547 students in 2018 compared to 371 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 91% to 84% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Natchitoches Jr. High School community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.