Cecilia High School

Cecilia High School is one of the average-sized secondary schools in Cecilia, Louisiana, overseen by St. Martin Parish, with 768 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.

St. Martin Parish comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 6,680 students; Cecilia High School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Cecilia High School logs that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment. Other groups include 33% Black, 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 69% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, St. Martin Parish runs at roughly 84%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for St. Martin Parish indicate median household income runs about $55,960, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across St. Martin Parish's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,696 students), Cecilia High School is one campus in the mix.

Cecilia Junior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Cecilia High School.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 787 students in 2018 compared to 768 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 61% to 56%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

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