Helen Cox High School

Helen Cox High School is a public school for students in Harvey, Louisiana.

Helen Cox High School is one school in Jefferson Parish, a system of 74 schools with 46,790 students.

Its student-to-teacher ratio is 23.8:1. The average for combined schools in Louisiana is 52.1:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher.

In the surrounding county, Jefferson Parish, the median household earns about $65,252 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 31%, and roughly 13% of residents are in poverty. Jefferson Parish has 86 public schools with about 47,983 students, including Helen Cox High School.

Woodland West School sits about 0.6 miles from Helen Cox High School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools.

NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

The school's student count decreased 15% between the 2017-18 and 2022-23 school years. White students made up 14% of enrollment in 2017-18 and 10% in 2022-23. The number of students per teacher dropped from 25.4 to 23.8 over 5 years.

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