Gueydan High School

Gueydan High School is a rural-scale senior high in Gueydan, Louisiana, one of the schools within Vermilion Parish. The school educates 187 students in grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 711 students each, so Gueydan High School sits 74% leaner than that benchmark.

Vermilion Parish runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 8,433 students. Gueydan High School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Gueydan High School reports that nearly all students (89%) are White. Other groups include 6% Black, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 78%.

On the income-and-resources front, Gueydan High School logs 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.0:1, putting Gueydan High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 57% of students at Gueydan High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Gueydan High School is in the bottom 10% of Louisiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 43.5%; Gueydan High School posts 24.3%, -19.2 points below that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Vermilion Parish indicate median household earnings sit near $55,707, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Vermilion Parish's 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,278 students), Gueydan High School is one campus in the mix.

Jesse Owens Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Gueydan High School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.5%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Gueydan High School has declined 29%, going from 262 students in 2018 to 187 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

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