Sunset Middle School

As an intimate junior high in Sunset, Louisiana, Sunset Middle School instructs 348 students from grades 5 through 8, operated by St. Landry Parish. Enrollment runs roughly 21% below the state mean of about 440.

Across the 32 schools in St. Landry Parish (10,982 students total), Sunset Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Sunset Middle School shows that the most-represented group is Black (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 30% White, 15% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, St. Landry Parish as a whole is about 40% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Sunset Middle School logs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 41.0:1 average. Roughly 81% of students at Sunset Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Sunset Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.9%; this one delivers 22.0%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for St. Landry Parish indicate the typical household earns roughly $44,462 per year, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 22%. In all, St. Landry Parish runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,731 students), of which Sunset Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Ecole Saint-Landry, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sunset Middle School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 31.1%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Sunset Middle School's enrollment has fell 12% since 2018, when it stood at 394 (now 348). Hispanic enrollment moved from 7% to 15% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 today.

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