Beekman Charter School

Set in Bastrop, Louisiana, Beekman Charter School is a high-enrollment combined-grade school, one of the schools within Morehouse Parish. It works with 1,053 students across grades pre-K through 12. Compared to the state average of about 527 students per school, that is 100% above typical.

Morehouse Parish comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 3,082 students; Beekman Charter School is among them.

On demographics, Beekman Charter School shows that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment. Other groups include 24% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Morehouse Parish as a whole is about 47% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 52.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Morehouse Parish runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Beekman Charter School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 41.5%; actual is 27.0%, a gap of -14.4 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Morehouse Parish) reports that median household income runs about $39,454, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 22% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Morehouse Parish runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,082 students), of which Beekman Charter School is one.

Bastrop High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 9.6 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Beekman Charter School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 27.3%.

The campus sits in a rural setting. Beekman Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 8%: 972 students in 2018 compared to 1,053 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 84% to 71%.

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