Independence High Magnet

Located at 270 Tiger Avenue, in Independence, Louisiana, Independence High Magnet is a low-enrollment high school that serves 490 students (grades 7 through 12), run under Tangipahoa Parish. That puts it 31% leaner than the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 711 students.

Tangipahoa Parish comprises 32 schools with combined enrollment of 19,077 students; Independence High Magnet is among them.

On demographics, Independence High Magnet reports that the largest single group is Black at 54%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 21% White, 21% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 29% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Independence High Magnet records 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.0:1 average. Roughly 83% of students at Independence High Magnet qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Tangipahoa Parish runs at roughly 73%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Independence High Magnet sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 24.6%; actual is 9.7%, a gap of -14.9 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Tangipahoa Parish shows median household earnings sit near $56,760, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Tangipahoa Parish's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,077 students), Independence High Magnet is one campus in the mix.

Independence Leadership Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Independence High Magnet comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 18.2%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Over the past 7-year window. Independence High Magnet's enrollment has expanded 37% since 2018, when it stood at 358 (now 490). The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 15% to 21% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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