Eastern LA Mental System

Eastern LA Mental System is a high school of one-room-style scale in Jackson, Louisiana, part of Special School District, educateing 2 students in grades 10 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 100% below the state mean of about 711.

Within Special School District, which oversees 7 schools and 283 students, Eastern LA Mental System is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Eastern LA Mental System logs that 100% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. By comparison, East Feliciana Parish as a whole is about 40% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 4.0:1. The state averages around 18.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for East Feliciana Parish put the typical household earns roughly $73,085 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, East Feliciana Parish runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,649 students), of which Eastern LA Mental System is one.

The closest other public school is East Feliciana High School, roughly 1.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Eastern LA Mental System.

Eastern LA Mental System operates from a countryside location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 75%: 8 students in 2018 compared to 2 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share increased from 63% to 100%.

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