Arlington Preparatory Academy

Arlington Preparatory Academy is one of the rural-scale secondary schools in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, run under East Baton Rouge Parish, with 94 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. That puts it 87% below the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 711 students.

East Baton Rouge Parish comprises 83 schools with combined enrollment of 40,083 students; Arlington Preparatory Academy is among them.

On the student-mix side, Arlington Preparatory Academy lists that 86% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder is composed of 7% Hispanic, 4% White, 2% Asian. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 4.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.0:1 average. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, East Baton Rouge Parish runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for East Baton Rouge Parish indicate median household earnings sit near $63,071, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Arlington Preparatory Academy is one of 132 public schools in East Baton Rouge Parish (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students).

EBR Readiness Superintendent Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Arlington Preparatory Academy's enrollment has rose 21% since 2018, when it stood at 78 (now 94). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 0% to 7%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 9.0:1 in 2018 to 4.2:1 in 2025.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.