Ouachita Junior High School

Ouachita Junior High School, a small junior high in Monroe, Louisiana, overseen by Ouachita Parish, works with 312 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 29% smaller than the state mean of about 440.

Ouachita Parish comprises 36 schools with combined enrollment of 17,435 students; Ouachita Junior High School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Ouachita Junior High School logs that 89% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 4% White, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 37% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Ouachita Junior High School records 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 41.0:1 average. Roughly 77% of students at Ouachita Junior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Ouachita Parish's rate of about 67%.

After controlling for student poverty, Ouachita Junior High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 29.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 19.3%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Ouachita Parish) logs that median household income runs about $54,688, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 18%. Across Ouachita Parish's 59 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,952 students), Ouachita Junior High School is one campus in the mix.

Sherrouse School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ouachita Junior High School. On composite proficiency, Ouachita Junior High School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 20.9%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 27%: 428 students in 2018 compared to 312 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

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