JS Clark Leadership Academy

JS Clark Leadership Academy operates as a close-knit unified-grade school in Opelousas, Louisiana, part of JS Clark Leadership Academy. Current enrollment sits at 434 students spanning grades K through 12.

JS Clark Leadership Academy sits inside JS Clark Leadership Academy, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, JS Clark Leadership Academy logs that nearly all students (98%) are Black. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 40%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 52.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, St. Landry Parish runs at roughly 80%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for St. Landry Parish indicate median household earnings sit near $44,462, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 22% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across St. Landry Parish's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,731 students), JS Clark Leadership Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Grolee Elementary School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area. JS Clark Leadership Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 74%: 249 students in 2018 compared to 434 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 7.3:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

On this page, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.