Herndon Magnet School

As a well-populated elementary-level community in Belcher, Louisiana, Herndon Magnet School serves 701 students from grades K through 8, overseen by Caddo Parish. That puts it 55% above the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 453 students.

Within Caddo Parish, which oversees 57 schools and 32,649 students, Herndon Magnet School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Herndon Magnet School records that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 16% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Herndon Magnet School has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Caddo Parish (around 68%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Herndon Magnet School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.6%, the actual is 66.0%, a residual of +6.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Caddo Parish) records that the typical household earns roughly $50,705 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 18%. In all, Caddo Parish runs 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,851 students), of which Herndon Magnet School is one.

Nearest neighbor: North Caddo High School, around 8.1 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Herndon Magnet School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 33.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Herndon Magnet School's enrollment has declined 6% since 2018, when it stood at 742 (now 701). The White share of enrollment decreased from 80% to 74% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 today.

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