LOUISIANA MIDDLE

LOUISIANA MIDDLE operates as a minimally staffed middle school in LOUISIANA, Missouri, part of LOUISIANA R-II. Current enrollment sits at 151 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 67% below the state mean of about 461.

Within LOUISIANA R-II, which oversees 3 schools and 681 students, LOUISIANA MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LOUISIANA MIDDLE logs that 69% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 17% Hispanic, 11% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Pike County as a whole is about 90% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 66% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Pike County (around 49%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, LOUISIANA MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.0%, the actual is 41.9%, a residual of -8.1 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Pike County shows median household earnings sit near $54,989, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Pike County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,424 students), LOUISIANA MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LOUISIANA HIGH, around 0.0 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LOUISIANA MIDDLE at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 35.8%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 7%: 163 students in 2018 compared to 151 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 83% to 69%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

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