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What's the most underrated thing about Bolton High School that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
372
High
DISTRICT 890 · STATE 711
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RAPIDES PARISH·NCES 220129001042
Bolton Academy
2101 Vance Avenue, Alexandria, LA 71301 · (318) 448-3628 · Rapides Parish
GRADES 06–12HIGH13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL372 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 94% of Louisiana public high schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Louisiana public high schools
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 18.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
203 students
DISTRICT 80% · STATE 70%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 75 | 20% |
| Grade 7 | 67 | 18% |
| Grade 8 | 106 | 28% |
| Grade 9 | 39 | 10% |
| Grade 10 | 38 | 10% |
| Grade 11 | 21 | 6% |
| Grade 12 | 26 | 7% |
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · STATE 65% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
90.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +2.0pp since 2024
Math
73.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +6.0pp since 2024
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 90 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2024, while math scores are up about 6 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 90.0% | 73.0% |
| 2024-25 | 88.0% | 67.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of LA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
78.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.1%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+33.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 45% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 33 points, placing it in Louisiana's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Bolton Academy
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bolton Academy this school | 372 | 54.6% | 78.3% |
| Slaughter Community Charter School Slaughter | 364 | 51.4% | 47.7% |
| Mangham High School Mangham | 294 | 59.5% | N/A |
| Lakeside Junior-Senior High School Sibley | 546 | 54.2% | 33.0% |
| Kinder High School Kinder | 388 | 61.1% | N/A |
| Many High School Many | 320 | 61.9% | N/A |
Matched among Louisiana high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Bolton Academy ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Rapides Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 78.3% | #4 of 65 | N/A |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #4 of 69 no change | N/A |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 90.0% | #3 of 70 no change | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 372 | #189 of 267 | #6 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.2:1 | #25 of 240 | #1 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.0% | #88 of 240 | #3 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 54.6% | #197 of 258 | #7 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -41.7% | #10 of 156 | N/A |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
372
-278 (-43%) vs 2020
-62% since 1990-91, when it was 968
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
was 14.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 372 | 36.5 | 10.2:1 | 55% (203) |
| 2023-24 | 561 | 53.3 | 10.5:1 | 83% (464) |
| 2022-23 | 629 | 39.5 | 15.9:1 | 82% (513) |
| 2020-21 | 650 | 46 | 14.1:1 | 58% (378) |
| 2017-18 | 638 | 38 | 16.8:1 | 81% (518) |
| 2015-16 | 549 | 50 | 11.0:1 | 70% (386) |
| 2010-11 | 689 | 47 | 14.7:1 | 54% (369) |
| 2000-01 | 1,057 | 69 | 15.3:1 | 56% (588) |
| 1990-91 | 968 | 62 | 15.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bolton Academy.
Since 2017-18: students down 42% (638 to 372); teachers down 4% (38 to 36.5).
About Bolton Academy
Bolton Academy is a small high school in Alexandria, Louisiana, administered by Rapides Parish. It reported 372 students in grades 6 through 12 in 2024-25. High schools in Louisiana have about 711 students on average; enrollment here is 48% lower.
Rapides Parish enrolls 21,340 students in 43 schools, including Bolton Academy.
More than half of the students at Bolton Academy are White (58%). Beyond that, enrollment is 33% Black, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian, and 2% Hispanic. That is in line with Rapides Parish, where about 61% of residents are White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Bolton Academy scores 55%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Bolton Academy is 10.2:1, based on 36.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, high schools in Louisiana average 18.0:1. Lunch program data show 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Across public schools in Rapides Parish, the average is 77%.
Among Louisiana public high schools, Bolton Academy outscored 94%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
Bolton Academy beats its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 33.3 points (78.3% versus 45.1%), a top-10% result in Louisiana on BeatsExpectations.
In the wider Rapides Parish area, median household income comes to about $54,967, roughly 23% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 15%. Rapides Parish counts 51 public schools with about 21,481 students.
Bolton Academy's nearest public school is L.S. Rugg Elementary School (about 0.4 miles). Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Bolton Academy ranks 1st of 8 on average proficiency.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Small.
Enrollment was 650 in 2020-21 and 372 in 2024-25. Large swings like this can come from changes to the grades a school serves. The ratio was 14.1:1 in 2020-21 and 10.2:1 in 2024-25.
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Rapides Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
127,527
Census ACS
Median income
$54,967
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
51
21,481 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Rapides Parish
- Alexandria Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,475 students
- Pineville High SchoolHigh · 1,271 students
- Peabody Magnet High SchoolHigh · 1,071 students
- J.I. Barron Sr. Elementary SchoolElementary · 924 students
- Buckeye High SchoolHigh · 915 students
- Tioga High SchoolHigh · 881 students
Other schools in Alexandria
- Alexandria Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,475 students
- Peabody Magnet High SchoolHigh · 1,071 students
- Scott M. Brame Middle SchoolMiddle · 709 students
- Cherokee Elementary SchoolElementary · 576 students
- J.B. Nachman Elementary SchoolElementary · 546 students
- Mabel Brasher MontessoriElementary · 508 students
Nearby schools
- L.S. Rugg Elementary School0.4 mi · 356
- Alma Redwine Elementary0.5 mi · 225
- Rosenthal Montessori Elementary School0.9 mi · 366
- Peabody Magnet High School1.2 mi · 1,071
- Alexandria Middle Magnet School1.2 mi · 469
- D.F. Huddle Elementary1.2 mi · 412
Frequently asked questions
About Bolton AcademyHow many students attend Bolton Academy?
Bolton Academy enrolls approximately 372 students in grades 06-12.
Is Bolton Academy an elementary, middle, or high school?
Bolton Academy is a high school covering grades 06-12.
How many teachers does Bolton Academy have?
Bolton Academy employs 37 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Bolton Academy?
Student demographics at Bolton Academy are roughly 58% White, 2% Hispanic, 33% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Bolton Academy in?
Bolton Academy is part of Rapides Parish.
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