Peabody Magnet High School

The public high school Peabody Magnet High School is located in Alexandria, Louisiana. The school enrolls 1,071 students, from grades 9 through 12. An average school in this group (high schools in Louisiana) has about 711 students.

Rapides Parish is responsible for 43 schools, Peabody Magnet High School included, with 21,340 students in all.

Black students make up 96% of enrollment at Peabody Magnet High School. Other students are 3% White. That is higher than the 31% Black share among all Rapides Parish residents. The school's diversity index is 9%, meaning two students picked at random have a 9% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

Peabody Magnet High School counts 71.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 14.9 students for each one. On average, high schools in Louisiana have 18.0:1, compared with 14.9:1 here. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Rapides Parish average 77%.

Rapides Parish has these Census figures: the median household income is $54,967, about 23% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. In all, Rapides Parish has 51 public schools and roughly 21,481 students.

Arthur F. Smith Middle Magnet School is the closest public school, about 0.3 miles away in a straight line. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8.

Federal records code the school's setting as City: Small.

Peabody Magnet High School reported 706 students in 2020-21 and 1,071 in 2024-25. Changes that large sometimes follow a school adding or dropping grades, so the two figures may not cover the same grades. By 2024-25, the school had 14.9 students per teacher, compared with 17.2 in 2020-21.

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