LaGrange High School

LaGrange High School operates as a middle-of-the-pack high school in Lake Charles, Louisiana, part of Calcasieu Parish. Current enrollment sits at 881 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 24% above the state mean of about 711.

Within Calcasieu Parish, which oversees 56 schools and 27,851 students, LaGrange High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, LaGrange High School logs that Black students make up the majority at 74%. Beyond that, the school reports 12% Hispanic, 8% White, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

Looking at school resources, LaGrange High School reports 93 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.4:1. The state averages around 18.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Calcasieu Parish's rate of about 59%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Calcasieu Parish indicate median household earnings sit near $67,564, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Calcasieu Parish's 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,278 students), LaGrange High School is one campus in the mix.

Henry Heights Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LaGrange High School.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. LaGrange High School's enrollment has decreased 20% since 2018, when it stood at 1,107 (now 881). Black enrollment moved from 86% to 74% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 today.

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