Enrollment
265
Middle
DISTRICT 479 · STATE 440
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CALCASIEU PARISH·NCES 220033000251
Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School
2300 Medora, Lake Charles, LA 70601 · (318) 217-4710 · Calcasieu Parish
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL265 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 21% of Louisiana public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Louisiana public middle schools
Student : Teacher
8.9:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.6:1 · STATE 41.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
240 students
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 70%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 97 | 37% |
| Grade 7 | 69 | 26% |
| Grade 8 | 99 | 37% |
Student demographics
12%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 65% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
31.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +7.0pp since 2022
Math
11.0%
LA avg 34.2% . -1.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 11 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 1 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 31.0% | 11.0% |
| 2024-25 | 25.0% | 12.0% |
| 2023-24 | 24.0% | 9.0% |
| 2022-23 | 24.0% | 12.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
14.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
19.1%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 19% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Louisiana's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School
Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School's state test result (14.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School this school | 265 | 90.6% | 14.0% |
| Lowery Middle School Donaldsonville | 277 | 91.3% | 14.0% |
| Linear/Northside Middle School Shreveport | 259 | 92.7% | 15.5% |
| Scotlandville Pre-Engineering Academy Baton Rouge | 216 | 90.3% | 22.3% |
| Madison Middle School Tallulah | 238 | 93.3% | 10.8% |
| Paul Breaux Middle School Lafayette | 314 | 91.1% | 21.8% |
Matched among Louisiana middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Calcasieu Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.0% | #192 of 213 | #11 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 11.0% | #187 of 210 ▼ 7 | #11 of 11 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.0% | #151 of 213 ▲ 22 | #11 of 11 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.0pp | #83 of 197 | #10 of 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 265 | #175 of 220 | #9 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.9:1 | #8 of 195 | #2 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 11.6% | #183 of 195 | #10 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.6% | #24 of 214 | #1 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -39.1% | #11 of 162 | #1 of 10 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
265
-74 (-22%) vs 2020
-60% since 1990-91, when it was 656
Student : Teacher
8.9:1
was 11.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 265 | 29.8 | 8.9:1 | 91% (240) |
| 2023-24 | 316 | 32.7 | 9.7:1 | 90% (284) |
| 2022-23 | 325 | 24.9 | 13.1:1 | 91% (295) |
| 2020-21 | 339 | 29 | 11.7:1 | 98% (333) |
| 2017-18 | 435 | 31.4 | 13.8:1 | 64% (279) |
| 2015-16 | 377 | 45 | 8.4:1 | 75% (283) |
| 2010-11 | 360 | 37 | 9.7:1 | 94% (338) |
| 2000-01 | 583 | 35 | 16.7:1 | 86% (499) |
| 1990-91 | 656 | 35 | 18.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School.
Since 2017-18: students down 39% (435 to 265); teachers down 5% (31.4 to 29.8).
About Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School
Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School sits in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and is classified as a middle school. Enrollment totals 265 students across grades 6 through 8. Across middle schools in Louisiana, the average enrollment is about 440.
Calcasieu Parish runs 56 schools with a combined 27,851 students. Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School is one of them.
The share of Black students at Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School is 94%. The next largest groups are 3% multiracial. The school's Black share is 71 points above the 23% share among Calcasieu Parish residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 12%.
The school lists 29.8 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.9:1. Statewide, middle schools in Louisiana average 41.0:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 91% of the student body. Across public schools in Calcasieu Parish, the average is 59%.
Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 21% of Louisiana public middle schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School is -5.1 points: 14.0% actual, 19.1% predicted.
In Calcasieu Parish, where the school is located, the median household earns about $67,564 a year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 13% of people live in poverty. Counting Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School, Calcasieu Parish has 61 public schools.
Among nearby public schools, Combre-Fondel Elementary School is closest at about 0.7 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School. Of the 6 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School is 5th on average proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Small, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The school shrank from 339 students in 2020-21 to 265 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 11.7:1 in 2020-21 to 8.9:1 in 2024-25.
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Calcasieu Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
207,088
Census ACS
Median income
$67,564
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
61
30,278 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Calcasieu Parish
- Sulphur High SchoolHigh · 1,911 students
- Alfred M. Barbe High SchoolHigh · 1,908 students
- Sam Houston High SchoolHigh · 1,141 students
- S. J. Welsh Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,011 students
- Iowa High SchoolHigh · 1,007 students
- Moss Bluff Elementary SchoolElementary · 969 students
Other schools in Lake Charles
- Alfred M. Barbe High SchoolHigh · 1,908 students
- Sam Houston High SchoolHigh · 1,141 students
- S. J. Welsh Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,011 students
- Moss Bluff Elementary SchoolElementary · 969 students
- Lake Charles Charter AcademyElementary · 951 students
- LaGrange High SchoolHigh · 881 students
Nearby schools
- Combre-Fondel Elementary School0.7 mi · 426
- Washington/Marion Magnet High School0.8 mi · 597
- Ralph F. Wilson Elementary School1.3 mi · 92
- John J. Johnson II Elementary School1.6 mi · 131
- Pearl Watson Elementary School2.6 mi · 219
- Moss Bluff Elementary School3.2 mi · 969
Frequently asked questions
About Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School?
Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School enrolls approximately 265 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School serve?
Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School have?
Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.9:1.
How diverse is Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School?
Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School reports a student body of 2% White, 2% Hispanic, 94% Black, 3% Two or more.
Is Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School public or private?
Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Calcasieu Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.