Richwood Junior High School

As a modestly sized intermediate school in Monroe, Louisiana, Richwood Junior High School enrolls 347 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by Ouachita Parish. That puts it 21% smaller than the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 440 students.

Ouachita Parish runs 36 schools in total, collectively educating 17,435 students. Richwood Junior High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Richwood Junior High School records that 97% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The wider county runs roughly 37% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Richwood Junior High School lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.0:1. The state averages around 41.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Ouachita Parish runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Richwood Junior High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 17.4%; this one delivers 10.3%.

Across the wider county, Ouachita Parish reports that the typical household earns roughly $54,688 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 18%. Richwood Junior High School is one of 59 public schools in Ouachita Parish (combined enrollment of about 25,952 students).

Nearest neighbor: Richwood High School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Richwood Junior High School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 12.4%.

Richwood Junior High School operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Richwood Junior High School's enrollment has contracted 22% since 2018, when it stood at 444 (now 347). Class-load math has tightened: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 in 2025.

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