Tioga Junior High School

Tioga Junior High School, a medium-sized intermediate school in Pineville, Louisiana, part of Rapides Parish, hosts 415 students, covering grades 7 through 8.

Tioga Junior High School is one of 43 schools operated by Rapides Parish, a district that serves 21,340 students overall.

On demographics, Tioga Junior High School reports that White students make up the majority at 69%; the rest looks like 23% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 61%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 41.0:1 average. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Tioga Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.9%, the actual is 43.0%, a residual of +14.1 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Rapides Parish indicate median household income runs about $54,967, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Rapides Parish runs 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,481 students), of which Tioga Junior High School is one.

Tioga High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Tioga Junior High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 44.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tioga Junior High School has ticked down 21%, going from 525 students in 2018 to 415 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 34% to 23%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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