St. Tammany Junior High School

St. Tammany Junior High School, a roomy junior high in Slidell, Louisiana, operated by St. Tammany Parish, hosts 686 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 440 students each, so St. Tammany Junior High School sits 56% bigger than that benchmark.

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

On demographics, St. Tammany Junior High School shows that Black students make up the majority at 71%; the rest reads as 15% White, 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 41.0:1 average. About 71% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above St. Tammany Parish's rate of about 44%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, St. Tammany Junior High School is in the bottom 10% of Louisiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 33.1%; St. Tammany Junior High School posts 17.7%, -15.4 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (St. Tammany Parish) records that the typical household earns roughly $81,202 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, St. Tammany Parish runs 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,212 students), of which St. Tammany Junior High School is one.

Glynn H. Brock Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around St. Tammany Junior High School. On composite proficiency, St. Tammany Junior High School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 28.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at St. Tammany Junior High School has rose 3%, going from 665 students in 2018 to 686 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 30% to 15% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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