Enrollment
259
High
DISTRICT 830 · STATE 711
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TANGIPAHOA PARISH·NCES 220168001310
Kentwood High Magnet School
603 9th Street, Kentwood, LA 70444 · (985) 229-2881 · Tangipahoa Parish
GRADES 07–12HIGH42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL259 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 28% of Louisiana public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Louisiana public high schools
Student : Teacher
8.6:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 18.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
239 students
DISTRICT 76% · STATE 70%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 38 | 15% |
| Grade 8 | 42 | 16% |
| Grade 9 | 40 | 15% |
| Grade 10 | 50 | 19% |
| Grade 11 | 44 | 17% |
| Grade 12 | 45 | 17% |
Student demographics
11%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 65% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
29.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +15.0pp since 2022
Math
15.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +7.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are up about 15 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 7 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 29.0% | 15.0% |
| 2024-25 | 22.0% | 12.0% |
| 2023-24 | 15.0% | 9.0% |
| 2022-23 | 14.0% | 8.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
12.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
17.9%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 13% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 18% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Louisiana's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Kentwood High Magnet School
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentwood High Magnet School this school | 259 | 92.3% | 12.6% |
| General Trass High School Lake Providence | 214 | 93.0% | N/A |
| Capitol High School Baton Rouge | 205 | 92.2% | N/A |
| Ferriday High School Ferriday | 289 | 95.5% | N/A |
| East Feliciana High School Jackson | 231 | 90.5% | N/A |
| Madison High School Tallulah | 280 | 88.2% | N/A |
Matched among Louisiana high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Kentwood High Magnet School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In Tangipahoa Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 12.6% | #58 of 65 | N/A |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.0% | #52 of 69 ▲ 4 | N/A |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.0% | #51 of 70 ▲ 8 | N/A |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +11.0pp | #8 of 51 | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 259 | #223 of 267 | #7 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.6:1 | #11 of 240 | #1 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 11.1% | #222 of 240 | #7 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.3% | #16 of 258 | #1 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.0% | #140 of 156 | N/A |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
259
-66 (-20%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 338
Student : Teacher
8.6:1
was 13.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 259 | 30.3 | 8.6:1 | 92% (239) |
| 2023-24 | 313 | 24.8 | 12.7:1 | 86% (268) |
| 2022-23 | 328 | 27.4 | 12.0:1 | 89% (293) |
| 2020-21 | 325 | 24 | 13.5:1 | 68% (220) |
| 2017-18 | 267 | 23.6 | 11.3:1 | 65% (174) |
| 2015-16 | 317 | 38 | 8.3:1 | 95% (301) |
| 2010-11 | 301 | 25 | 12.0:1 | 93% (280) |
| 2000-01 | 376 | 27 | 13.9:1 | 93% (349) |
| 1990-91 | 338 | 21 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kentwood High Magnet School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (267 to 259); teachers up 29% (23.6 to 30.3).
About Kentwood High Magnet School
Located in Kentwood, Louisiana, Kentwood High Magnet School is a small high school. The school counts 259 students across grades 7 through 12. The school's enrollment is 64% smaller than the 711 average for high schools in Louisiana.
Tangipahoa Parish runs Kentwood High Magnet School along with 31 other schools, enrolling 19,077 students in total.
Federal enrollment data show Kentwood High Magnet School is 94% Black. Enrollment also includes 3% White and 2% multiracial. The school's Black share is 65 points above the 29% share among Tangipahoa Parish residents. Kentwood High Magnet School's diversity index is 11%, against a US figure of 70%.
Teachers at the school number 30.3 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 8.6:1. On average, high schools in Louisiana have 18.0:1, compared with 8.6:1 here. The school's lunch program data list 92% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. It compares with 73% for public schools in Tangipahoa Parish.
Measured against Louisiana public high schools, Kentwood High Magnet School receives a C. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Kentwood High Magnet School is 5.3 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (12.6% versus 17.9%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Louisiana.
Within Tangipahoa Parish, the median household income is $56,760, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 21% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 14%. In all, Tangipahoa Parish has 33 public schools and roughly 19,077 students.
The shortest distance from Kentwood High Magnet School to another public school is about 0.9 miles, to O.W. Dillon Leadership Academy. Other public schools within five miles: 2. Kentwood High Magnet School comes in 8th of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Locale data from NCES put Kentwood High Magnet School in rural territory some distance from an urban area (Rural: Distant).
Kentwood High Magnet School's enrollment dropped from 325 in 2020-21 to 259 in 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio falling from 13.5:1 to 8.6:1.
Topics for discussion here include school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Tangipahoa Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
136,738
Census ACS
Median income
$56,760
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
14%
Below federal line
Schools in county
33
19,077 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Tangipahoa Parish
- Ponchatoula High SchoolHigh · 2,067 students
- Hammond High Magnet SchoolHigh · 1,606 students
- Hammond Eastside MagnetElementary · 1,340 students
- Champ Cooper Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,163 students
- Hammond Westside MontessoriElementary · 1,022 students
- Loranger Elementary SchoolElementary · 800 students
Other schools in Kentwood
- Jewel M. Sumner High SchoolHigh · 428 students
- Chesbrough Elementary SchoolElementary · 424 students
- O.W. Dillon Leadership AcademyElementary · 314 students
- Jewel M. Sumner Middle SchoolMiddle · 306 students
- Spring Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 292 students
Nearby schools
- O.W. Dillon Leadership Academy0.9 mi · 314
- Spring Creek Elementary School4.4 mi · 292
- Jewel M. Sumner Middle School5.3 mi · 306
- Osyka Elementary School5.3 mi · 214
- Jewel M. Sumner High School5.4 mi · 428
- Chesbrough Elementary School7.1 mi · 424
Frequently asked questions
About Kentwood High Magnet SchoolHow large is Kentwood High Magnet School?
Kentwood High Magnet School enrolls approximately 259 students in grades 07-12.
What age range does Kentwood High Magnet School serve?
Kentwood High Magnet School serves students from grade 07 through grade 12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Kentwood High Magnet School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Kentwood High Magnet School is approximately 8.6:1 (30 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Kentwood High Magnet School?
Student demographics at Kentwood High Magnet School are roughly 3% White, 1% Hispanic, 94% Black, 2% Two or more.
Is Kentwood High Magnet School public or private?
Kentwood High Magnet School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Tangipahoa Parish.
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