Scott Middle School

Set in Scott, Louisiana, Scott Middle School is a medium-sized middle school, run under Lafayette Parish. It teaches 629 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 440 students each, so Scott Middle School sits 43% larger than that benchmark.

Lafayette Parish comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 29,396 students; Scott Middle School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Scott Middle School logs that 41% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 33% Black, 21% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 63% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Scott Middle School records 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 41.0:1 average. Roughly 64% of students at Scott Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Scott Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.3%, the actual is 28.3%, a residual of -10.0 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Lafayette Parish shows median household income runs about $67,451, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Lafayette Parish's 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,903 students), Scott Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: L. Leo Judice Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Scott Middle School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.9%.

Scott Middle School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Scott Middle School's enrollment has increased 20% since 2018, when it stood at 524 (now 629). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 12% to 21%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.