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Parkway High School
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Parkway High School
Parkway High School is one of the well-populated high schools in Bossier City, Louisiana, one of the schools within Bossier Parish, with 1,279 students on its rolls from grades 8 through 12. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 711 students each, so Parkway High School sits 80% larger than that benchmark.
Bossier Parish comprises 34 schools with combined enrollment of 22,233 students; Parkway High School is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Parkway High School shows that White students make up the majority at 55%. Other groups include 28% Black, 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Bossier Parish) logs that the typical household earns roughly $69,617 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bossier Parish's 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,233 students), Parkway High School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Curtis Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.
Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 1,296 students in 2018 compared to 1,279 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 61% to 55% over that span.
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