GEO Prep Mid-City of Greater Baton Rouge

As an expansive elementary campus in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, GEO Prep Mid-City of Greater Baton Rouge instructs 686 students from grades K through 8, part of GEO Prep Mid-City of Greater Baton Rouge. Compared to the state average of about 453 students per school, that is 51% above typical.

GEO Prep Mid-City of Greater Baton Rouge sits inside GEO Prep Mid-City of Greater Baton Rouge, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, GEO Prep Mid-City of Greater Baton Rouge lists that nearly all students (99%) are Black. By comparison, East Baton Rouge Parish as a whole is about 44% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. Roughly 90% of students at GEO Prep Mid-City of Greater Baton Rouge qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above East Baton Rouge Parish's rate of about 70%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (East Baton Rouge Parish) logs that median household earnings sit near $63,071, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across East Baton Rouge Parish's 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students), GEO Prep Mid-City of Greater Baton Rouge is one campus in the mix.

Collegiate Baton Rouge is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GEO Prep Mid-City of Greater Baton Rouge.

GEO Prep Mid-City of Greater Baton Rouge operates from a downtown location. As a public charter, GEO Prep Mid-City of Greater Baton Rouge runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GEO Prep Mid-City of Greater Baton Rouge has shrank 4%, going from 711 students in 2018 to 686 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 22.2:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 today.

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