Northwood High School

Set in Lena, Louisiana, Northwood High School is an average-sized unified-grade school, overseen by Rapides Parish. It caters to 598 students across grades pre-K through 12.

Rapides Parish runs 43 schools in total, collectively educating 21,340 students. Northwood High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Northwood High School lists that 57% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 34% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Northwood High School has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.1:1. The state averages around 52.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Northwood High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.9%, the actual is 33.3%, a residual of +8.4 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Rapides Parish indicate the typical household earns roughly $54,967 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Northwood High School is one of 51 public schools in Rapides Parish (combined enrollment of about 21,481 students).

Nearest neighbor: Colfax Elementary School, around 7.7 miles off. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Northwood High School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 26.8%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Northwood High School has declined 13%, going from 686 students in 2018 to 598 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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