Central High School

Central High School is an all-grades campus of micro-enrollment scale in Jonesville, Louisiana, run under Catahoula Parish, instructing 47 students in grades K through 12. Compared to the state average of about 527 students per school, that is 91% smaller than typical.

Central High School is one of 5 schools operated by Catahoula Parish, a district that works with 898 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Central High School records that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 4% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Catahoula Parish as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Central High School has 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 5.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 52.1:1 average. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Central High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.8%, the actual is 35.0%, a residual of +10.2 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Catahoula Parish indicate median household income runs about $50,275, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 20%. Central High School is one of 5 public schools in Catahoula Parish (combined enrollment of about 898 students).

The closest other public school is Monterey High School, roughly 13.4 miles away. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Central High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 38.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 37%: 75 students in 2018 compared to 47 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 9.4:1 in 2018 to 5.7:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.