Mansfield High School

Mansfield High School, a small senior high in Mansfield, Louisiana, part of DeSoto Parish, serves 327 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 711 students each, so Mansfield High School sits 54% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 9 schools in DeSoto Parish (4,923 students total), Mansfield High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Mansfield High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (91%). Other groups include 4% White, 2% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.0:1 average. Around 83% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, De Soto Parish runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (De Soto Parish) shows that the typical household earns roughly $48,578 per year, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across De Soto Parish's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,923 students), Mansfield High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mansfield Middle School, around 2.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mansfield High School has ticked down 24%, going from 429 students in 2018 to 327 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

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