Natchitoches Parish Technical and Career Center

Natchitoches Parish Technical and Career Center is an all-grades campus of very small scale in Natchitoches, Louisiana, part of Natchitoches Parish, teacheing 37 students in grades 4 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 527 students per school, that is 93% leaner than typical.

Within Natchitoches Parish, which oversees 13 schools and 4,792 students, Natchitoches Parish Technical and Career Center is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Natchitoches Parish Technical and Career Center logs that the largest single group is Black, at 78% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 19% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 40% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 52.1:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at Natchitoches Parish Technical and Career Center qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Natchitoches Parish's rate of about 84%.

Across the wider county, Natchitoches Parish reports that median household earnings sit near $46,292, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 18%. Across Natchitoches Parish's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,064 students), Natchitoches Parish Technical and Career Center is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Natchitoches Jr. High School, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Natchitoches Parish Technical and Career Center has decreased 74%, going from 142 students in 2018 to 37 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share expanded from 6% to 19%. Class-load math has tightened: from 9.5:1 in 2018 to 7.8:1 in 2025.

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