Oak Park Middle School

Set in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Oak Park Middle School is a middle-of-the-pack middle school, overseen by Calcasieu Parish. It serves 388 students across grades 6 through 8.

Calcasieu Parish comprises 56 schools with combined enrollment of 27,851 students; Oak Park Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Oak Park Middle School logs that nearly all students (86%) are Black. Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 6% White, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the resource side, The school employs 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.1:1. The state averages around 41.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Calcasieu Parish runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Oak Park Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 24.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 13.7%.

In the broader community, Calcasieu Parish reports that median household earnings sit near $67,564, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Oak Park Middle School is one of 61 public schools in Calcasieu Parish (combined enrollment of about 30,278 students).

The closest other public school is Oak Park Elementary School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Oak Park Middle School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Oak Park Middle School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 19.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 15%: 455 students in 2018 compared to 388 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment fell from 92% to 86% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 today.

On allk12, members of the Oak Park Middle School community share and discuss classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.