Thibodaux Middle School

As an average-sized junior high in Thibodaux, Louisiana, Thibodaux Middle School caters to 592 students from grades 6 through 8, operated by Lafourche Parish. Enrollment runs roughly 35% bigger than the state mean of about 440.

Lafourche Parish comprises 30 schools with combined enrollment of 13,326 students; Thibodaux Middle School is among them.

Demographically, Thibodaux Middle School reports that 54% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 31% White, 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Lafourche Parish as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Thibodaux Middle School reports 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 41.0:1 average. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Lafourche Parish runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Thibodaux Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.8%, the actual is 24.7%, a residual of -3.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Lafourche Parish shows median household earnings sit near $63,135, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Thibodaux Middle School is one of 32 public schools in Lafourche Parish (combined enrollment of about 13,426 students).

Nearest neighbor: Bayou Community Academy Charter School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Thibodaux Middle School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 36.3%.

Thibodaux Middle School operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 47%: 402 students in 2018 compared to 592 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 38% to 31%.

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