NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools LA

Best-Resourced Schools in Morgan City, LA

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8 public K-12 schools in Morgan City from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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8
Schools
2,482
Students
52.5/100
Avg Resource Index
16.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Morgan City has more public-school enrollment than 20% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Morgan City sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

6 of Morgan City's 8 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Morgan City's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 92nd percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 42nd percentile. The 50-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 80%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
92nd percentile
Teacher staffing
42nd percentile

Morgan City High School accounts for 26.2% of all Morgan City public-school enrollment

That concentration means Morgan City-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Morgan City school enrollment varies 6.8× across entities

Morgan City school enrollment ranges from 96 students (lowest) to 650 students (highest), a spread of 554 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Morgan City reports 61.8% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Morgan City student-teacher ratio is 16.1:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Morgan City is typically wider than the Morgan City-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Wyandotte Elementary School 65
2. M.E. Norman Elementary School 59
3. Stephensville Elementary School 55
4. Bayou Vista Elementary School 50
5. Julia B. Maitland School 49
6. Morgan City Junior High School 48
7. Morgan City High School 47
8. Bayou L'ourse Primary School 47

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Morgan City

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 M.E. Norman Elementary School 71.7/100
  2. 2 Wyandotte Elementary School 71.0/100
  3. 3 Morgan City High School 69.4/100
  4. 4 Morgan City Junior High School 68.4/100
  5. 5 Julia B. Maitland School 64.9/100

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Which Morgan City school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Wyandotte Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Morgan City schools in this federal-data comparison at 65/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Morgan City, LA? ▼

Morgan City has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,482 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.1:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.