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Youngsville Middle School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Youngsville Middle School
Youngsville Middle School is one of the mid-tier junior highs in Youngsville, Louisiana, overseen by Lafayette Parish, with 534 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 440 students per school, that is 21% above typical.
Lafayette Parish comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 29,396 students; Youngsville Middle School is among them.
On demographics, Youngsville Middle School reports that 61% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 25% Black, 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Lafayette Parish as a whole.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 41.0:1 average. Roughly 42% of students at Youngsville Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Lafayette Parish (around 59%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
With demographic context factored in, Youngsville Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.9%, the actual is 47.0%, a residual of -6.8 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Lafayette Parish) shows that the typical household earns roughly $67,451 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Youngsville Middle School is one of 50 public schools in Lafayette Parish (combined enrollment of about 35,903 students).
Green T. Lindon Elementary 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), Youngsville Middle School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 50.7%.
The campus sits in a suburban setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Youngsville Middle School has shrank 40%, going from 888 students in 2018 to 534 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 78% to 61% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 22.2:1 in 2018 to 20.3:1 in 2025.
Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Youngsville Middle School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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