C.F. Rowley Alternative School

C.F. Rowley Alternative School is a very small high school in Chalmette, Louisiana, one of the schools in St. Bernard Parish. Its enrollment is 103 students, spread over grades 6 through 12. That compares with an average of about 711 students for high schools in Louisiana.

St. Bernard Parish has 7,592 students in 12 schools, and C.F. Rowley Alternative School is one of those schools.

Federal enrollment data show C.F. Rowley Alternative School is 57% Black. Other groups include 27% White, 11% Hispanic, and 3% multiracial. The county population is about 24% Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 59%.

C.F. Rowley Alternative School reports a ratio of 6.3 students per teacher, from 16.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school's 6.3:1 compares with an average of 18.0:1 for high schools in Louisiana. Lunch program data show 78% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That rate is above the 63% average among public schools in St. Bernard Parish.

In the surrounding county, St. Bernard Parish, the median household earns about $58,651 a year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 18% of people live in poverty. St. Bernard Parish has 12 public schools with about 7,592 students, including C.F. Rowley Alternative School.

Of the public schools around it, C.F. Rowley Alternative School is closest to Chalmette Elementary School, about 0.3 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.

In 2020-21, C.F. Rowley Alternative School enrolled 89 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 103. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 7.4:1 to 6.3:1.

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