Calvin High School

Calvin High School, a compact combined-grade school in Calvin, Louisiana, part of Winn Parish, serves 289 students, covering grades pre-K through 12. That puts it 45% below the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 527 students.

Within Winn Parish, which oversees 5 schools and 1,732 students, Calvin High School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Calvin High School shows that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 13% Black, 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 62% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Calvin High School lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 52.1:1 average. About 62% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Calvin High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.0%, the actual is 34.7%, a residual of -5.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, Winn Parish reports that the typical household earns roughly $48,871 per year, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Calvin High School is one of 6 public schools in Winn Parish (combined enrollment of about 1,732 students).

The closest other public school is Winnfield Middle School, roughly 7.0 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Calvin High School at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 22.6%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 3%: 299 students in 2018 compared to 289 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 today.

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