Red River Junior High School

Red River Junior High School is a small junior high in Coushatta, Louisiana, one of the schools within Red River Parish. The school caters to 213 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 52% smaller than the state mean of about 440.

Red River Parish comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,243 students; Red River Junior High School is among them.

Demographically, Red River Junior High School records that the largest single group is Black, at 56% of enrollment. Other groups include 37% White, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 40%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.5:1. The state averages around 41.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Red River Junior High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 16.0%; this one delivers 14.0%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Red River Parish) reports that median household earnings sit near $49,167, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Red River Junior High School is one of 5 public schools in Red River Parish (combined enrollment of about 1,243 students).

Red River High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Red River Junior High School. On composite proficiency, Red River Junior High School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 24.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Red River Junior High School's enrollment has ticked down 36% since 2018, when it stood at 333 (now 213). White enrollment moved from 29% to 37% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 8.5:1 in 2025.

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