Vidalia Junior High School

Set in Vidalia, Louisiana, Vidalia Junior High School is a cozy middle-grades school, part of Concordia Parish. It instructs 336 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 440 students each, so Vidalia Junior High School sits 24% below that benchmark.

Concordia Parish runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 2,911 students. Vidalia Junior High School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Vidalia Junior High School logs that White students make up the majority at 57%; the rest comes out to 30% Black, 9% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 41.0:1 average. Roughly 79% of students at Vidalia Junior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Vidalia Junior High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 27.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 26.0%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Concordia Parish) logs that the typical household earns roughly $39,943 per year, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 25%. In all, Concordia Parish runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,396 students), of which Vidalia Junior High School is one.

Vidalia Upper Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Vidalia Junior High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 40.4%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 340 students in 2018 compared to 336 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 64% to 57% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 in 2025.

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