L.W. Higgins High School

L.W. Higgins High School operates as a large high school in Marrero, Louisiana. Enrollment totals 1,136 students across grades 9 through 12. On average, high schools in Louisiana enroll around 711, and this school is 60% above that mark.

Enrollment across the 74 schools in Jefferson Parish totals 46,790 students.

Federal enrollment data show L.W. Higgins High School is 58% Black. Next come 24% Hispanic, 12% White, 3% Asian, and 2% multiracial. The county population is about 26% Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 59%.

There are 55.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 20.5:1. The average for high schools in Louisiana, 18.0:1, is lower. Of all students at L.W. Higgins High School, 79% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 68% average for public schools in Jefferson Parish, the school's rate is higher.

In Jefferson Parish, the median household earns about $65,252 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 31%, and about 13% of people live in poverty. Jefferson Parish has 86 public schools with about 47,983 students, including L.W. Higgins High School.

Lincoln School for the Arts, about 1.0 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

The NCES locale for L.W. Higgins High School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 1,136, compared with 1,057 in 2020-21. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 20.5:1, from 24.6:1.

The allk12 page for L.W. Higgins High School lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.