Buckeye High School

Set in Deville, Louisiana, Buckeye High School is a reasonably sized four-year high school, operated by Rapides Parish. It works with 915 students across grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 29% bigger than the state mean of about 711.

Buckeye High School is one of 43 schools operated by Rapides Parish, a district that teaches 21,340 students overall.

Demographically, Buckeye High School lists that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The wider county runs roughly 61% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Buckeye High School reports 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.0:1, putting Buckeye High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Rapides Parish runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Buckeye High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.7%, the actual is 44.7%, a residual of +3.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Rapides Parish indicate the typical household earns roughly $54,967 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Rapides Parish's 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,481 students), Buckeye High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Hayden R. Lawrence Upper Elementary School, around 0.3 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Buckeye High School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 44.4%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 18%: 1,113 students in 2018 compared to 915 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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