Rusheon Middle School

As a mid-tier junior high in Bossier City, Louisiana, Rusheon Middle School works with 583 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Bossier Parish. Enrollment runs roughly 33% above the state mean of about 440.

Across the 34 schools in Bossier Parish (22,233 students total), Rusheon Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Rusheon Middle School records that the largest single group is Black at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 32% Hispanic, 11% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Bossier Parish as a whole is about 24% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. The state averages around 41.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Bossier Parish's rate of about 53%.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Rusheon Middle School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 26.3%; actual is 12.0%, a gap of -14.3 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Bossier Parish) reports that median household earnings sit near $69,617, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Bossier Parish runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,233 students), of which Rusheon Middle School is one.

R. V. Kerr Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rusheon Middle School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 19.6%.

Rusheon Middle School operates from an urban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Rusheon Middle School's enrollment has grew 10% since 2018, when it stood at 530 (now 583). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 21% to 32%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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