Acadiana High School

Acadiana High School, a well-populated 9-12 campus in Lafayette, Louisiana, run under Lafayette Parish, serves 1,652 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 132% bigger than the state mean of about 711.

Within Lafayette Parish, which oversees 44 schools and 29,396 students, Acadiana High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Acadiana High School reports that the most-represented group is White (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 35% Black, 21% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 76 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.0:1, putting Acadiana High School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 57% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Lafayette Parish put the typical household earns roughly $67,451 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Lafayette Parish runs 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,903 students), of which Acadiana High School is one.

Prairie Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Acadiana High School's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 1,678 (now 1,652). Hispanic enrollment moved from 10% to 21% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 21.9:1 today.

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