J. K. Haynes Teacher Prep and Leadership Academy

Set in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, J. K. Haynes Teacher Prep and Leadership Academy is a rural-scale K-5 school, run under East Baton Rouge Parish. It hosts 121 students across grades pre-K through 7. Enrollment runs roughly 73% smaller than the state mean of about 453.

J. K. Haynes Teacher Prep and Leadership Academy is one of 83 schools operated by East Baton Rouge Parish, a district that educates 40,083 students overall.

In terms of who attends, J. K. Haynes Teacher Prep and Leadership Academy lists that nearly all students (100%) are Black. The wider county runs roughly 44% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, J. K. Haynes Teacher Prep and Leadership Academy shows 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.1:1. The state averages about 14.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 99% of students at J. K. Haynes Teacher Prep and Leadership Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than East Baton Rouge Parish's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, J. K. Haynes Teacher Prep and Leadership Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 13.2%, the actual is 13.0%, a residual of -0.2 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for East Baton Rouge Parish indicate the typical household earns roughly $63,071 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. J. K. Haynes Teacher Prep and Leadership Academy is one of 132 public schools in East Baton Rouge Parish (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students).

Scotlandville Pre-Engineering Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts J. K. Haynes Teacher Prep and Leadership Academy at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 21.1%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

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