Southeast Middle School

Set in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Southeast Middle School is a high-enrollment middle school, run under East Baton Rouge Parish. It educates 826 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 88% larger than the state mean of about 440.

East Baton Rouge Parish comprises 83 schools with combined enrollment of 40,083 students; Southeast Middle School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Southeast Middle School logs that the largest single group is Black, at 61% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 29% Hispanic, 4% White, 4% Asian. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 41.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 75% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Southeast Middle School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 30.3%; actual is 14.3%, a gap of -16.0 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (East Baton Rouge Parish) reports that median household income runs about $63,071, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across East Baton Rouge Parish's 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students), Southeast Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Wedgewood Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Southeast Middle School. On composite proficiency, Southeast Middle School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 40.2%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 17%: 705 students in 2018 compared to 826 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 16% to 29% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 in 2025.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.