Opelousas Senior High School

Set in Opelousas, Louisiana, Opelousas Senior High School is a reasonably sized four-year high school, run under St. Landry Parish. It enrolls 698 students across grades 9 through 12.

Opelousas Senior High School is one of 32 schools operated by St. Landry Parish, a district that teaches 10,982 students overall.

Demographically, Opelousas Senior High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (90%). The remainder is composed of 4% White, 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 40% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.0:1 average. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Around the school, census data for St. Landry Parish shows median household income runs about $44,462, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 22%. Across St. Landry Parish's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,731 students), Opelousas Senior High School is one campus in the mix.

Park Vista Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Opelousas Senior High School has shrank 9%, going from 765 students in 2018 to 698 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 15% to 4% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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