Lincoln Preparatory School

Set in Grambling, Louisiana, Lincoln Preparatory School is a middle-of-the-pack all-grades campus, operated by Lincoln Preparatory School. It works with 684 students across grades pre-K through 12. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 527 students each, so Lincoln Preparatory School sits 30% bigger than that benchmark.

Operationally, Lincoln Preparatory School answers to Lincoln Preparatory School, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Demographically, Lincoln Preparatory School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (95%). Beyond that, the school logs 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 37% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 52.1:1 average. Roughly 85% of students at Lincoln Preparatory School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Lincoln Parish's rate of about 57%.

In the broader community, census data for Lincoln Parish shows median household earnings sit near $39,172, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 21%. Across Lincoln Parish's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,360 students), Lincoln Preparatory School is one campus in the mix.

Ruston Junior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lincoln Preparatory School.

The campus sits in an outlying setting. As a public charter, Lincoln Preparatory School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Looking at the recent track record. Lincoln Preparatory School's enrollment has increased 65% since 2018, when it stood at 415 (now 684). The Black share of enrollment expanded from 86% to 95% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

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