Baton Rouge Magnet High School

Among the schools in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is Baton Rouge Magnet High School, a high-enrollment high school. School enrollment was 1,593 students in 2024-25, in grades 9 through 12. The average among high schools in Louisiana is roughly 711 students; this school is 124% bigger than that.

The district, East Baton Rouge Parish, operates 83 schools serving 40,083 students.

The most common group at Baton Rouge Magnet High School is White students, at 40%. After that, the student body is 26% Black, 21% Asian, and 9% Hispanic. That is close to the 42% White share among all East Baton Rouge Parish residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 72% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

Baton Rouge Magnet High School's 90.3 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 17.6:1. That matches the 18.0:1 average for high schools in Louisiana fairly closely. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 32%. That is 38 points below the 70% average for public schools in East Baton Rouge Parish.

Census Bureau estimates for East Baton Rouge Parish show that the median household income is $63,071, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 14%. There are 132 public schools in East Baton Rouge Parish, enrolling about 66,892 students in all.

The closest other public school is The Dufrocq School, about 0.5 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools.

On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Mid-size.

Enrollment in 2024-25 was 1,593, close to the 1,607 recorded in 2020-21. The ratio was 20.6:1 in 2020-21 and 17.6:1 in 2024-25.

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