Raceland Middle School

As a compact intermediate school in Raceland, Louisiana, Raceland Middle School enrolls 289 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by Lafourche Parish. That puts it 34% leaner than the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 440 students.

Raceland Middle School is one of 30 schools operated by Lafourche Parish, a district that serves 13,326 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Raceland Middle School logs that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 35% Black, 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Native American. By comparison, Lafourche Parish as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Raceland Middle School has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 41.0:1 average. Around 76% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Lafourche Parish runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Raceland Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.9%, the actual is 29.7%, a residual of -0.2 points.

In the surrounding community, Lafourche Parish reports that the typical household earns roughly $63,135 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Raceland Middle School is one of 32 public schools in Lafourche Parish (combined enrollment of about 13,426 students).

Nearest neighbor: Raceland Upper Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Raceland Middle School at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 51.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 11%: 325 students in 2018 compared to 289 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 46% to 35%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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