Monterey High School

Located at 5920 Highway 129, in Monterey, Louisiana, Monterey High School is a compact unified-grade school that teaches 369 students (grades pre-K through 12), one of the schools within Concordia Parish. Enrollment runs roughly 30% smaller than the state mean of about 527.

Concordia Parish runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 2,911 students. Monterey High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Monterey High School logs that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 2% Black. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 56%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 52.1:1, putting Monterey High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Concordia Parish's rate of about 80%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Monterey High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.7%, the actual is 51.3%, a residual of +13.6 points.

Around the school, census data for Concordia Parish shows the typical household earns roughly $39,943 per year, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 25% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Concordia Parish's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,396 students), Monterey High School is one campus in the mix.

Block High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 13.1 miles from this campus. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Monterey High School at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 19.5%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 19%: 458 students in 2018 compared to 369 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 in 2025.

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