Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Caldwell Parish Junior High School, Columbia, LA

CEP schoolCaldwell Parish Junior High School is a public middle school in Columbia, part of Caldwell Parish. It enrolled 294 students in 2024-25, with 9.8 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 294
Teachers (FTE): 30.0
Students per teacher: 9.8
Grades: 6 to 8

This school's ratio is 0.9 lower than the district figure of 10.7. The Louisiana average across schools is 13.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school9.8

District10.7

Louisiana13.9

United States15.3

School details

Address: 114 Trojan Drive, Columbia, LA 71418
Phone: (318)649-2340
District: Caldwell Parish
County: Caldwell Parish
Level: Middle
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Rural: Remote
NCES school ID: 220036000282

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 212
Reduced-price lunch: 10
Free or reduced-price lunch: 22275.5% of enrollment.
Direct certification: 187Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision: Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.