Kentwood High Magnet School

Located at 603 9th Street, in Kentwood, Louisiana, Kentwood High Magnet School is a rural-scale high school that works with 259 students (grades 7 through 12), part of Tangipahoa Parish. Enrollment runs roughly 64% below the state mean of about 711.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Kentwood High Magnet School reports that 94% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 3% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Tangipahoa Parish as a whole is about 29% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Kentwood High Magnet School reports 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.0:1 average. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Tangipahoa Parish's rate of about 73%.

With demographic context factored in, Kentwood High Magnet School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 18.1%, the actual is 9.7%, a residual of -8.5 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Tangipahoa Parish) records that the typical household earns roughly $56,760 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Tangipahoa Parish runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,077 students), of which Kentwood High Magnet School is one.

Nearest neighbor: O.W. Dillon Leadership Academy, around 0.9 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Kentwood High Magnet School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 25.4%.

Kentwood High Magnet School operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Kentwood High Magnet School's enrollment has declined 3% since 2018, when it stood at 267 (now 259). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 8.6:1 today.

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