Parks Middle School

Set in St. Martinville, Louisiana, Parks Middle School is a cozy middle-grades school, one of the schools within St. Martin Parish. It works with 245 students across grades 4 through 8. That puts it 44% below the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 440 students.

St. Martin Parish runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 6,680 students. Parks Middle School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Parks Middle School shows that Black students make up the majority at 57%. Beyond that, the school records 34% White, 5% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, St. Martin Parish as a whole is about 29% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. The state averages around 41.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Parks Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.7%; this one delivers 35.3%.

In the surrounding community, census data for St. Martin Parish shows median household income runs about $55,960, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Parks Middle School is one of 16 public schools in St. Martin Parish (combined enrollment of about 6,696 students).

Parks Primary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Parks Middle School comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 27.8%.

Parks Middle School operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Parks Middle School's enrollment has decreased 23% since 2018, when it stood at 320 (now 245). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 49% to 34%. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Parks Middle School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.