Woodlawn Middle School

Set in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Woodlawn Middle School is a heavily attended intermediate school, one of the schools within East Baton Rouge Parish. It educates 807 students across grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 440 students per school, that is 83% above typical.

Woodlawn Middle School is one of 83 schools operated by East Baton Rouge Parish, a district that caters to 40,083 students overall.

On demographics, Woodlawn Middle School logs that Black students make up the majority at 55%. Other groups include 22% Hispanic, 15% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. The state averages around 41.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 68% of students at Woodlawn Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Woodlawn Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.6%, the actual is 32.0%, a residual of -3.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for East Baton Rouge Parish shows median household earnings sit near $63,071, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, East Baton Rouge Parish runs 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students), of which Woodlawn Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Shenandoah Elementary School, roughly 0.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Woodlawn Middle School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Woodlawn Middle School's enrollment has contracted 10% since 2018, when it stood at 899 (now 807). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 11% to 22%. Class-load math has fell: from 23.2:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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