Collegiate Baton Rouge

Collegiate Baton Rouge, a cozy high school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, one of the schools within Collegiate Baton Rouge, teaches 530 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 25% below the state mean of about 711.

Collegiate Baton Rouge is a school of Collegiate Baton Rouge, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

In terms of who attends, Collegiate Baton Rouge logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (92%). The remainder breaks down as 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 44% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Collegiate Baton Rouge has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.0:1, putting Collegiate Baton Rouge tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 97% of students at Collegiate Baton Rouge qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, East Baton Rouge Parish runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, census data for East Baton Rouge Parish shows the typical household earns roughly $63,071 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Collegiate Baton Rouge is one of 132 public schools in East Baton Rouge Parish (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students).

Nearest neighbor: BASIS Baton Rouge Primary Mid City, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. Collegiate Baton Rouge is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 314%: 128 students in 2018 compared to 530 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 97% to 92%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.