Converse High School

Converse High School is a middle-of-the-pack unified-grade school in Converse, Louisiana, overseen by Sabine Parish. The school hosts 490 students in grades pre-K through 12.

Across the 10 schools in Sabine Parish (3,741 students total), Converse High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Converse High School shows that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 18% Native American, 8% multiracial, 2% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Sabine Parish as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Converse High School shows 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 52.1:1 average. About 68% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Converse High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.6%, the actual is 26.3%, a residual of -9.3 points.

In the surrounding community, Sabine Parish reports that the typical household earns roughly $50,329 per year, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 18%. Across Sabine Parish's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,741 students), Converse High School is one campus in the mix.

Zwolle High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 10.9 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, Converse High School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 31.5%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 15%: 578 students in 2018 compared to 490 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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