Middle · Louisiana
Sixth Ward Middle School
Free meals for allSixth Ward Middle School, a public middle school in Thibodaux, Louisiana: grades 6–8, 236 students, 12.4 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Lafourche Parish.
Size and class size
Compared with middle schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 236
- Teachers (FTE)
- 19.0
- Students per teacher
- 12.4
- Grades
- 6–8
- Middle
Fewer students per teacher than 62% of middle schools in Louisiana
Median 13.3 · 219 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 72% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Smaller than 83% of middle schools in Louisiana
Median 391 · 221 schools compared
Smaller than 83% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
State test results
Share of students scoring proficient or above on Louisiana's tests, grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year.
Reading and writing
Louisiana: 43%67%proficient
−10.2 points from 2023–24 school year
A higher share proficient than 94% of middle schools in Louisiana
Median 40% · 221 middle schools compared
224 students tested, grades 3–8 · LEAP 2025; proficient means Levels 4-5
Math
Louisiana: 33%61%proficient
+6.2 points from 2023–24 school year
A higher share proficient than 95% of middle schools in Louisiana
Median 26% · 221 middle schools compared
224 students tested, grades 3–8 · LEAP 2025; proficient means Levels 4-5
Each state sets its own test and its own bar for “proficient”, so results compare only within a state. Results also follow family income closely: a school's share reflects its students' circumstances as much as its teaching.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 6–8
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Rural area near a city
- Run by
- Lafourche Parish
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Lafourche Parish.
Location
- Address
- 1865 Choctaw Road, Thibodaux, LA 70301
- Phone
- (985)633-2449
- City or town
- Choctaw
- County
- Lafourche Parish
Nearby middle schools
The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher | Reading | Math |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Thibodaux Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 592 | 13.5 | 37% | 24% |
Caldwell Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 4–6 | 341 | 14.5 | 43% | 37% |
Sixth Ward Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | 4–6 | 269 | 10.6 | 29% | 25% |
Raceland Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 289 | 14.7 | 49% | 32% |
Labadieville Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 5–8 | 191 | 12.5 | 23% | 11% |
Evergreen Junior High SchoolFree meals for all | 7–8 | 622 | 17.3 | 47% | 27% |
Reading and Math: share of tested students proficient or above on the state's own tests (grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year). Compare only within a state.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
- State Assessment Data Repository (Education Data Center), 2024–25 school year. Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository v3.1.
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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