Port Allen Middle School

Port Allen Middle School is one of the low-enrollment middle-grades schools in Port Allen, Louisiana, one of the schools within West Baton Rouge Parish, with 204 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 440 students per school, that is 54% below typical.

West Baton Rouge Parish runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 4,153 students. Port Allen Middle School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Port Allen Middle School reports that 76% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest looks like 13% White, 9% Hispanic. By comparison, West Baton Rouge Parish as a whole is about 41% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Port Allen Middle School lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.4:1. The state averages around 41.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 97% of students at Port Allen Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, West Baton Rouge Parish runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Port Allen Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 15.1%; this one delivers 23.7%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for West Baton Rouge Parish put the typical household earns roughly $87,299 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Port Allen Middle School is one of 10 public schools in West Baton Rouge Parish (combined enrollment of about 4,153 students).

Nearest neighbor: Port Allen Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Port Allen Middle School. On composite proficiency, Port Allen Middle School comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 21.3%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Port Allen Middle School has remained close to its prior level, going from 205 students in 2018 to 204 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 82% to 76% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 10.5:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

On this page, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.