Glen Oaks Senior High School

Glen Oaks Senior High School operates as a small four-year high school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, operated by East Baton Rouge Parish. Current enrollment sits at 575 students spanning grades 6 through 12.

East Baton Rouge Parish runs 83 schools in total, collectively educating 40,083 students. Glen Oaks Senior High School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Glen Oaks Senior High School shows that 95% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 4% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.0:1, putting Glen Oaks Senior High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against East Baton Rouge Parish (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

In the surrounding community, census data for East Baton Rouge Parish shows median household earnings sit near $63,071, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Glen Oaks Senior High School is one of 132 public schools in East Baton Rouge Parish (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students).

The closest other public school is Forest Heights Academy of Excellence, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Glen Oaks Senior High School's enrollment has climbed 9% since 2018, when it stood at 529 (now 575). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 today.

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