Lakeside Junior-Senior High School

As a modestly sized four-year high school in Sibley, Louisiana, Lakeside Junior-Senior High School serves 546 students from grades 6 through 12, part of Webster Parish. Compared to the state average of about 711 students per school, that is 23% smaller than typical.

Webster Parish runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 4,967 students. Lakeside Junior-Senior High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lakeside Junior-Senior High School reports that 69% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 22% Black, 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the resource side, Lakeside Junior-Senior High School logs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.7:1. The state averages around 18.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Webster Parish's rate of about 73%.

With demographic context factored in, Lakeside Junior-Senior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.3%, the actual is 32.7%, a residual of -12.6 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Webster Parish) logs that the typical household earns roughly $41,182 per year, about 13% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 18% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Webster Parish runs 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,967 students), of which Lakeside Junior-Senior High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Central Elementary School, around 4.7 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lakeside Junior-Senior High School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 26.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lakeside Junior-Senior High School has shrank 5%, going from 576 students in 2018 to 546 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

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