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Middle · Regular · Grades 5 to 8

Paul Breaux Middle School, Lafayette, LA

CEP schoolPaul Breaux Middle School is a public middle school in Lafayette, part of Lafayette Parish. It enrolled 314 students in 2024-25, with 15.0 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
314
Teachers (FTE)
21.0
Students per teacher
15.0
Grades
5 to 8

This school's ratio is 2.6 lower than the district figure of 17.6. The Louisiana average across schools is 13.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school15.0
District17.6
Louisiana13.9
United States15.3

School details

Address
1400 South Orange Street, Lafayette, LA 70501
County
Lafayette Parish
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Midsize
NCES school ID
220087000663
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
285
Reduced-price lunch
1
Free or reduced-price lunch
28691.1% of enrollment.
Direct certification
277Students 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.

Related schools

Other middle schools in Lafayette Parish

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

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.