Hackberry High School

Hackberry High School, a low-enrollment unified-grade school in Hackberry, Louisiana, one of the schools within Cameron Parish, hosts 218 students, covering grades pre-K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 59% leaner than the state mean of about 527.

Cameron Parish runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,120 students. Hackberry High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Hackberry High School records that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 2% multiracial. By comparison, Cameron Parish as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 52.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Hackberry High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 51.5%; this one comes in at 30.7%, -20.8 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Cameron Parish put median household income runs about $75,278, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cameron Parish's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,120 students), Hackberry High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Grand Lake Elementary, roughly 11.1 miles away. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hackberry High School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 48.8%.

Hackberry High School operates from a countryside location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 8%: 238 students in 2018 compared to 218 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 9.5:1 in 2018 to 7.4:1 in 2025.

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