Marksville High School

As a middle-of-the-pack secondary school in Marksville, Louisiana, Marksville High School works with 640 students from grades 7 through 12, one of the schools within Avoyelles Parish.

Avoyelles Parish comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 4,794 students; Marksville High School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Marksville High School records that 46% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 43% Black, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 63% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.0:1, putting Marksville High School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Marksville High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 27.9%; actual is 11.7%, a gap of -16.2 points.

Across the wider county, Avoyelles Parish reports that median household earnings sit near $39,325, roughly 12% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Marksville High School is one of 13 public schools in Avoyelles Parish (combined enrollment of about 5,726 students).

The closest other public school is Marksville Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Marksville High School. On composite proficiency, Marksville High School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 30.9%.

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

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 19%: 790 students in 2018 compared to 640 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 49% to 43%.

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