Basile High School

Set in Basile, Louisiana, Basile High School is an intimate senior high, overseen by Evangeline Parish. It works with 432 students across grades 5 through 12. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 711 students each, so Basile High School sits 39% smaller than that benchmark.

Evangeline Parish runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 5,326 students. Basile High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Basile High School lists that White students make up the majority at 74%. Beyond that, the school shows 16% Black, 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 65%.

In terms of school funding signals, Basile High School shows 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.0:1. The state averages around 18.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 59% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Evangeline Parish's rate of about 72%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Basile High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 42.0%; actual is 28.0%, a gap of -14.0 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Evangeline Parish put median household income runs about $41,915, 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 19%. Across Evangeline Parish's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,326 students), Basile High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: W. W. Stewart Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Basile High School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 36.3%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Basile High School has edged down 3%, going from 444 students in 2018 to 432 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 20% to 16% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Basile High School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.