Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School

Located at 2300 Medora, in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School is a cozy junior high that works with 265 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by Calcasieu Parish. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 440 students each, so Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School sits 40% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 56 schools in Calcasieu Parish (27,851 students total), Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (94%). The remainder breaks down as 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 41.0:1, putting Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Calcasieu Parish (around 59%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.4%, the actual is 13.0%, a residual of -6.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Calcasieu Parish shows the typical household earns roughly $67,564 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Calcasieu Parish runs 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,278 students), of which Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School is one.

The closest other public school is Combre-Fondel Elementary School, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 25.9%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 39%: 435 students in 2018 compared to 265 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 8.9:1 today.

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