Alexandria Senior High School

Alexandria Senior High School is a public high school in Alexandria, Louisiana. Its enrollment is 1,475 students, spread over grades 9 through 12. High schools in Louisiana average about 711 students, which makes this school 107% above average.

Alexandria Senior High School is one of the 43 schools that make up Rapides Parish (21,340 students in total).

Black students account for 45% of enrollment at Alexandria Senior High School, more than any other group. Other students are 44% White, 5% Hispanic, and 4% Asian. By comparison, Rapides Parish residents are about 31% Black. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 60%.

There are about 17.9 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Alexandria Senior High School, which has 82.3. It is about the same as the 18.0:1 average for high schools in Louisiana. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 64%. That rate is below the 77% average among public schools in Rapides Parish.

The county, Rapides Parish, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $54,967 a year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Alexandria Senior High School, Rapides Parish has 51 public schools.

Cherokee Elementary School sits about 0.7 miles from Alexandria Senior High School. Alexandria Senior High School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Small: inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.

Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 1,475, compared with 1,363 in 2020-21. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 17.9:1, from 18.9:1.

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