Public school / Middle
Opelousas Junior High School
Opelousas, Louisiana
- NCES ID
- 220156001203
- District
- St. Landry Parish
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Opelousas Junior High School is a public middle school in Opelousas, Louisiana, run by St. Landry Parish. It enrols 456 students — the 43024th largest of 1,374 public schools in Louisiana.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
456
Teachers
21.0
Students per teacher
21.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
84.4%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within St. Landry Parish
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Beau Chene High School891 students
- 2Opelousas Senior High School840 students
- 3Eunice High School650 students
- 4Lawtell Elementary School646 students
- 5Leonville Elementary School636 students
- 6Northwest High School582 students
- 7Park Vista Elementary School575 students
- 8Cankton Elementary School569 students
- Enrollment−6.7%
- Teachers−22.2%
- Students per teacher+23.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+26.0%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory