Helix Mentorship STEAM Academy

Helix Mentorship STEAM Academy is one of the modestly sized senior highs in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, operated by East Baton Rouge Parish, with 504 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 29% below the state mean of about 711.

Across the 83 schools in East Baton Rouge Parish (40,083 students total), Helix Mentorship STEAM Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Helix Mentorship STEAM Academy lists that 96% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. By comparison, East Baton Rouge Parish as a whole is about 44% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.0:1 average. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, East Baton Rouge Parish runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, East Baton Rouge Parish reports that median household income runs about $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), Helix Mentorship STEAM Academy is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Helix Legal Academy, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Helix Mentorship STEAM Academy operates from a city-core location. As a public charter, Helix Mentorship STEAM Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 5%: 529 students in 2018 compared to 504 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 in 2025.

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