📍 401 West Oak Street, Amite, Tangipahoa Parish, 70422
Amite Westside Middle Magnet is a State/Public serving middle age pupils, located in Amite, Tangipahoa Parish. The school has 285 pupils enrolled. It is part of the Tangipahoa Parish school district. It serves grades 5–8 in a rural setting. The school employs 20.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, a student-teacher ratio of 14.0:1. 17% of students are proficient in reading. 6% are proficient in maths. Technology infrastructure includes fiber internet, campus-wide Wi-Fi, devices for students.
Amite Westside Middle Magnet enrolls 285 students across grades 5–8. The student body is 59% male and 41% female. A teaching staff of 20.3 full-time-equivalent teachers supports the school, giving a student-teacher ratio of 14.0:1.
By race and ethnicity, the student body is 79% Black or African American, 11% White and 6.7% Two or more races.
| Race / ethnicity | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Black or African American | 224 | 79% |
| White | 31 | 11% |
| Two or more races | 19 | 6.7% |
| Hispanic or Latino | 10 | 3.5% |
| Asian | 1 | <1% |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data.
255 of the school's 285 students (89%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Of these, 246 qualify for free lunch and 9 for a reduced price. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility is a widely used indicator of the share of students from lower-income households.
Amite Westside Middle Magnet is located in a rural setting (NCES locale: Rural, Distant). The school runs a schoolwide Title I program, which provides federal funding to support students from low-income families. For civic and policy purposes, the school sits in congressional district LA-50, state senate district 12, state house district 72.
Amite Westside Middle Magnet is one of 32 schools in Tangipahoa Parish, based in Amite, Louisiana. The district serves 19,077 students district-wide and employs 1,109 full-time-equivalent teachers. With 285 students, Amite Westside Middle Magnet is smaller than the district average of about 596 students per school.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Proficiency based on state assessments.
Setting: Rural - Distant
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