S. P. Arnett Middle School

Located at 400 Sulphur Ave, in Westlake, Louisiana, S. P. Arnett Middle School is an average-sized middle school that instructs 374 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by Calcasieu Parish.

Calcasieu Parish comprises 56 schools with combined enrollment of 27,851 students; S. P. Arnett Middle School is among them.

On demographics, S. P. Arnett Middle School lists that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 13% Black, 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 41.0:1, putting S. P. Arnett Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 52% of students at S. P. Arnett Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, S. P. Arnett Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.9%, the actual is 44.3%, a residual of -2.6 points.

In the area at large, Calcasieu Parish reports that the typical household earns roughly $67,564 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Calcasieu Parish's 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,278 students), S. P. Arnett Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Westwood Elementary School, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around S. P. Arnett Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts S. P. Arnett Middle School at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 43.4%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. S. P. Arnett Middle School's enrollment has edged down 6% since 2018, when it stood at 400 (now 374). The Black share of enrollment shrank from 19% to 13% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.