Castor High School

Castor High School is a combined-grade school of tight-knit scale in Castor, Louisiana, part of Bienville Parish, instructing 417 students in grades pre-K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 21% leaner than the state mean of about 527.

Within Bienville Parish, which oversees 7 schools and 1,799 students, Castor High School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Castor High School reports that nearly all students (89%) are White. Beyond that, the school reports 7% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Bienville Parish as a whole is about 55% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Castor High School reports 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 52.1:1 average. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Bienville Parish runs at roughly 73%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Castor High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.8%, the actual is 43.3%, a residual of -2.4 points.

In the broader community, census data for Bienville Parish shows median household income runs about $35,011, roughly 13% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 22%. Castor High School is one of 9 public schools in Bienville Parish (combined enrollment of about 1,799 students).

Ringgold Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 7.8 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), Castor High School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 30.3%.

Castor High School operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 29%: 588 students in 2018 compared to 417 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.