Slidell Junior High School

As an expansive middle school in Slidell, Louisiana, Slidell Junior High School hosts 724 students from grades 7 through 8, operated by St. Tammany Parish. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 440 students each, so Slidell Junior High School sits 65% bigger than that benchmark.

St. Tammany Parish comprises 55 schools with combined enrollment of 35,956 students; Slidell Junior High School is among them.

Demographically, Slidell Junior High School reports that the most-represented group is Black (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 41% White, 11% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, St. Tammany Parish as a whole is about 12% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 41.0:1, putting Slidell Junior High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, St. Tammany Parish runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Slidell Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.7%, the actual is 33.3%, a residual of -7.3 points.

In the broader community, census data for St. Tammany Parish shows the typical household earns roughly $81,202 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Slidell Junior High School is one of 56 public schools in St. Tammany Parish (combined enrollment of about 36,212 students).

Nearest neighbor: Florida Avenue Elementary School, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Slidell Junior High School at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 26.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Slidell Junior High School's enrollment has ticked down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 761 (now 724). The White share of enrollment edged down from 53% to 41% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

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