Red River Junior High School

Red River Junior High School is a public middle school in Coushatta, Louisiana, serving 258 students in grades 6-8. The school is part of the Red River Parish School District, which is ranked 80 out of 118 districts in the state and has a 2-star rating from SchoolDigger.

Red River Junior High School has consistently ranked in the bottom half of Louisiana middle schools over the past 5 years, with its performance on state assessments significantly below the state and district averages. For example, in 2024-2025, only 43% of students were proficient or better in Mathematics, compared to 60% at the state level and 53% in the district. The school's performance is particularly low in 8th grade Mathematics, with only 24% of students proficient or better, compared to 47% at the state level and 24% in the district.

The school's performance varies significantly across different student subgroups, with male students and African American students generally performing better than female students and white students. Additionally, the school has high chronic absenteeism rates, ranging from 15% to 24.6% over the past few years, and relatively high dropout rates, ranging from 3.3% to 10.7% in recent years. These challenges may be exacerbated by the school's high percentage of students from low-socioeconomic status backgrounds, with 89.53% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2023-2024.