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French Settlement High School
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LEAP 2025 2023-24 . % Mastery+BeatsExpectations
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About French Settlement High School
French Settlement High School operates as a compact four-year high school in French Settlement, Louisiana, part of Livingston Parish. Current enrollment sits at 450 students spanning grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 711 students per school, that is 37% leaner than typical.
Livingston Parish runs 43 schools in total, collectively educating 27,209 students. French Settlement High School is one of those campuses.
On demographics, French Settlement High School logs that nearly all students (91%) are White. Beyond that, the school records 4% Hispanic. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 60% of students at French Settlement High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Livingston Parish (around 73%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, French Settlement High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.4%, the actual is 52.3%, a residual of +10.9 points.
Around the school, Livingston Parish reports that median household earnings sit near $80,122, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. French Settlement High School is one of 44 public schools in Livingston Parish (combined enrollment of about 27,209 students).
French Settlement Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around French Settlement High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts French Settlement High School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 51.4%.
The campus sits in a low-density setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at French Settlement High School has climbed 16%, going from 388 students in 2018 to 450 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.
On allk12, the feed for French Settlement High School typically covers classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Livingston Parish at a glance
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