Poland Junior High School

Located at 3348 Highway 457, in Alexandria, Louisiana, Poland Junior High School is a low-enrollment elementary campus that educates 330 students (grades pre-K through 8), one of the schools within Rapides Parish. Compared to the state average of about 453 students per school, that is 27% smaller than typical.

Rapides Parish runs 43 schools in total, collectively educating 21,340 students. Poland Junior High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Poland Junior High School logs that 74% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 18% Black, 5% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Rapides Parish as a whole is about 61% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. An estimated 80% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Poland Junior High School ranks in the top 10% of Louisiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 27.1%; Poland Junior High School posts 48.7%, +21.6 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Rapides Parish put the typical household earns roughly $54,967 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Poland Junior High School is one of 51 public schools in Rapides Parish (combined enrollment of about 21,481 students).

Ruby-Wise Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 7.6 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Poland Junior High School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 38.8%.

Poland Junior High School operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Poland Junior High School has fell 14%, going from 383 students in 2018 to 330 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 28% to 18% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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