1
Enrollment
592
Middle
DISTRICT 370 · STATE 440
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAFOURCHE PARISH·NCES 220090000727
Thibodaux Middle School
724 Cardinal Dr, Thibodaux, LA 70301 · (985) 446-6889 · Lafourche Parish
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL592 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.8:1 · STATE 41.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
466 students
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 70%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 185 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 205 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 202 | 34% |
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · STATE 65% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
38.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +5.0pp since 2022
Math
21.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +8.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 8 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 38.0% | 21.0% |
| 2024-25 | 38.0% | 24.0% |
| 2023-24 | 37.0% | 18.0% |
| 2022-23 | 33.0% | 13.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
26.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
27.6%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 28% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Louisiana's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Thibodaux Middle School
Thibodaux Middle School's state test result (26.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thibodaux Middle School this school | 592 | 78.7% | 26.5% |
| Webster Junior High School Minden | 461 | 79.8% | 20.8% |
| Patterson Junior High School Patterson | 374 | 75.9% | 35.0% |
| East Ouachita Middle School Monroe | 498 | 70.7% | 29.2% |
| Martha Vinyard Elementary School Ponchatoula | 589 | 71.3% | 20.3% |
| Carencro Middle School Carencro | 585 | 77.6% | 20.7% |
Matched among Louisiana middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Thibodaux Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Lafourche Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.5% | #129 of 213 | #7 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.0% | #142 of 210 ▼ 24 | #7 of 7 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #121 of 213 ▼ 1 | #7 of 7 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.5pp | #44 of 197 | #5 of 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 592 | #57 of 220 | #1 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #99 of 195 | #2 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.0% | #65 of 195 | #4 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.7% | #70 of 214 | #1 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +47.3% | #1 of 40 | N/A |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
592
+157 (+36%) vs 2020
-7% since 1990-91, when it was 637
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
was 16.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 592 | 43.7 | 13.5:1 | 79% (466) |
| 2023-24 | 679 | 50.7 | 13.4:1 | 79% (537) |
| 2022-23 | 430 | 25.4 | 16.9:1 | 74% (319) |
| 2020-21 | 435 | 26 | 16.7:1 | 60% (263) |
| 2017-18 | 402 | 28.5 | 14.1:1 | 82% (331) |
| 2015-16 | 434 | N/A | N/A | 82% (354) |
| 2010-11 | 447 | 29 | 15.4:1 | 74% (331) |
| 2000-01 | 699 | 48 | 14.6:1 | 68% (472) |
| 1990-91 | 637 | 36 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Thibodaux Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 47% (402 to 592); teachers up 54% (28.5 to 43.7).
About Thibodaux Middle School
Thibodaux, Louisiana, is home to Thibodaux Middle School, a mid-sized middle school. It teaches 592 students in grades 6 through 8. That is 35% larger than the average of about 440 students for middle schools in Louisiana.
District-wide, Lafourche Parish has 30 schools and 13,326 students.
Black students are 54% of those enrolled at Thibodaux Middle School. The remaining shares are 31% White, 9% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. Census estimates put the Black share of Lafourche Parish's population at about 13%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 60%.
The school has 43.7 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 13.5 students per teacher. Middle schools in Louisiana average 41.0:1, 27.5 more students per teacher than here. Of all students at Thibodaux Middle School, 79% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 63% average for public schools in Lafourche Parish.
In Louisiana, Thibodaux Middle School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 26.5% actual against a predicted 27.6%.
For Lafourche Parish, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $63,135, about 21% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 12% of residents are in poverty. There are 32 public schools in the county, enrolling about 13,426, Thibodaux Middle School among them.
Among nearby public schools, Bayou Community Academy Charter School is closest at about 0.2 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 36.5%, higher than Thibodaux Middle School's 26.5%.
The school's locale code, City: Small, means it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 592, up from 435 in 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 16.7:1 to 13.5:1.
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Lafourche Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
96,252
Census ACS
Median income
$63,135
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
32
13,426 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lafourche Parish
- Central Lafourche High SchoolHigh · 1,307 students
- Thibodaux High SchoolHigh · 1,306 students
- South Lafourche High SchoolHigh · 990 students
- Thibodaux Elementary SchoolElementary · 575 students
- Bayou Community Academy Charter SchoolElementary · 499 students
- Virtual Academy of LafourcheCombined · 477 students
Other schools in Thibodaux
- Thibodaux High SchoolHigh · 1,306 students
- Thibodaux Elementary SchoolElementary · 575 students
- Bayou Community Academy Charter SchoolElementary · 499 students
- Virtual Academy of LafourcheCombined · 477 students
- W.S. Lafargue Elementary SchoolElementary · 457 students
- C.M. Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 392 students
Nearby schools
- Bayou Community Academy Charter School0.2 mi · 499
- Thibodaux Elementary School0.2 mi · 575
- The MAX Charter School0.4 mi · 100
- C.M. Washington Elementary School0.6 mi · 392
- Virtual Academy of Lafourche0.7 mi · 477
- W.S. Lafargue Elementary School1.2 mi · 457
Frequently asked questions
About Thibodaux Middle SchoolHow large is Thibodaux Middle School?
Thibodaux Middle School enrolls approximately 592 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Thibodaux Middle School serve?
Thibodaux Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Thibodaux Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Thibodaux Middle School is approximately 13.5:1 (44 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Thibodaux Middle School?
Thibodaux Middle School reports a student body of 31% White, 9% Hispanic, 54% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Thibodaux Middle School?
Thibodaux Middle School is overseen by Lafourche Parish in Lafourche Parish.
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