Anacoco High School

Anacoco High School is a four-year high school of small scale in Anacoco, Louisiana, one of the schools within Vernon Parish, works with 311 students in grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 711 students each, so Anacoco High School sits 56% below that benchmark.

Vernon Parish runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 7,887 students. Anacoco High School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Anacoco High School logs that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 75% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Anacoco High School has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.0:1 average. Roughly 60% of students at Anacoco High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Anacoco High School ranks in the top 10% of Louisiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 40.8%; Anacoco High School posts 57.7%, +16.9 points above that line.

In the broader community, Vernon Parish reports that median household income runs about $57,270, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across Vernon Parish's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,887 students), Anacoco High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Anacoco Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 7 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Anacoco High School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 34.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 18%: 380 students in 2018 compared to 311 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

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