Booker T. Washington High

Booker T. Washington High is a mid-sized high school with an address in Shreveport, Louisiana. Its grade span covers grades 9 through 13, with 722 students on the rolls.

A total of 57 schools make up Caddo Parish, with 32,649 students enrolled.

A large majority of enrollment at Booker T. Washington High is Black, at 96%. After that, the student body is 2% Hispanic. Among all residents of Caddo Parish, the Black share is about 49%. The diversity index for Booker T. Washington High is 8%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.

On staff are 47.1 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 15.3:1. High schools in Louisiana average 18.0:1, 2.7 more students per teacher than here. Booker T. Washington High has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 86%. The rate at public schools in Caddo Parish averages 68%, lower than here.

Census data for Caddo Parish show median household income comes to about $50,705, about 26% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 18% of residents are in poverty. There are 61 public schools in the county, enrolling about 33,851, Booker T. Washington High among them.

Of the public schools around it, Booker T. Washington High is closest to J. S. Clark Elementary School, about 0.4 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8.

Federal data place Booker T. Washington High in the City: Mid-size locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 722, compared with 830 in 2020-21. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 21.8:1; by 2024-25 it was 15.3:1.

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