DeQuincy High School

DeQuincy High School is a high school of micro-enrollment scale in DeQuincy, Louisiana, part of Calcasieu Parish, hosting 279 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 61% smaller than the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 711 students.

Calcasieu Parish comprises 56 schools with combined enrollment of 27,851 students; DeQuincy High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DeQuincy High School reports that the largest single group is White, at 77% of enrollment. Other groups include 18% Black, 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.0:1, putting DeQuincy High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Calcasieu Parish runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Calcasieu Parish shows the typical household earns roughly $67,564 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. DeQuincy High School is one of 61 public schools in Calcasieu Parish (combined enrollment of about 30,278 students).

The closest other public school is DeQuincy Middle School, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. DeQuincy High School's enrollment has fell 26% since 2018, when it stood at 378 (now 279). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 85% to 77%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 today.

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