Public school / Middle
W. W. Lewis Middle School
Sulphur, Louisiana
- NCES ID
- 220033000247
- District
- Calcasieu Parish
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
W. W. Lewis Middle School is a public middle school in Sulphur, Louisiana, run by Calcasieu Parish. It enrols 777 students — the 15287th 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
777
Teachers
57.0
Students per teacher
13.6
Free or reduced-price lunch
49.3%
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 Calcasieu 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.
- 1Sulphur High School2,043 students
- 2Alfred M. Barbe High School1,991 students
- 3Sam Houston High School1,216 students
- 4S. J. Welsh Middle School1,107 students
- 5Iowa High School1,096 students
- 6Moss Bluff Elementary School973 students
- 7Lagrange High School907 students
- 8Moss Bluff Middle School883 students
- Enrollment+58.9%
- Teachers+111.1%
- Students per teacher−22.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−26.4%
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