St. Martinville Junior High School

St. Martinville Junior High School, a small middle-grades school in St. Martinville, Louisiana, overseen by St. Martin Parish, hosts 299 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 32% smaller than the state mean of about 440.

Across the 15 schools in St. Martin Parish (6,680 students total), St. Martinville Junior High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, St. Martinville Junior High School logs that Black students make up the majority at 59%; the rest reads as 33% White, 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, St. Martinville Junior High School has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.8:1. The state averages around 41.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), St. Martinville Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.7%, the actual is 19.7%, a residual of -1.1 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (St. Martin Parish) shows that the typical household earns roughly $55,960 per year, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. St. Martinville Junior High School is one of 16 public schools in St. Martin Parish (combined enrollment of about 6,696 students).

Nearest neighbor: St. Martin Early STEAM Academy, around 1.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, St. Martinville Junior High School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 30.9%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at St. Martinville Junior High School has decreased 33%, going from 449 students in 2018 to 299 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 40% to 33% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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