Southside Junior High School

As a moderately sized middle-grades school in Denham Springs, Louisiana, Southside Junior High School enrolls 536 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Livingston Parish. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 440 students each, so Southside Junior High School sits 22% above that benchmark.

Livingston Parish runs 43 schools in total, collectively educating 27,209 students. Southside Junior High School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Southside Junior High School records that the largest single group is White at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 32% Hispanic, 18% Black, 2% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Livingston Parish as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Southside Junior High School shows 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 41.0:1 average. Roughly 78% of students at Southside Junior High 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, Southside Junior High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 28.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.7%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Livingston Parish indicate median household earnings sit near $80,122, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Livingston Parish's 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,209 students), Southside Junior High School is one campus in the mix.

Southside Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Southside Junior High School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Southside Junior High School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 42.2%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Southside Junior High School's enrollment has rose 21% since 2018, when it stood at 442 (now 536). White enrollment moved from 66% to 45% across the same window.

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