Opelousas Middle School

As a minimally staffed 6-8 campus in Opelousas, Louisiana, Opelousas Middle School caters to 132 students from grades 5 through 6, one of the schools within St. Landry Parish. Enrollment runs roughly 70% below the state mean of about 440.

Within St. Landry Parish, which oversees 32 schools and 10,982 students, Opelousas Middle School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Opelousas Middle School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (91%); the rest is composed of 5% Hispanic, 4% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 40%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 41.0:1, putting Opelousas Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 90% of students at Opelousas Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than St. Landry Parish's rate of about 80%.

After controlling for student poverty, Opelousas Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.6%, the actual is 12.7%, a residual of -7.0 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (St. Landry Parish) records that median household income runs about $44,462, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 22%. In all, St. Landry Parish runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,731 students), of which Opelousas Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Opelousas Junior High School, around 0.5 miles off. 8 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), Opelousas Middle School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 27.6%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Opelousas Middle School's enrollment has decreased 65% since 2018, when it stood at 375 (now 132). Over the same period, the Black share declined from 97% to 91%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 7.4:1 in 2025.

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