Enrollment
203
Combined
DISTRICT 439 · STATE 527
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PLAQUEMINES PARISH·NCES 220123001026
Phoenix High School
12700 Hwy 23, Braithwaite, LA 70040 · (504) 595-6466 · Plaquemines Parish
GRADES PK–12COMBINED41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL203 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 42% of Louisiana public K-12 schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Louisiana public K-12 schools
Student : Teacher
8.3:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 52.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
161 students
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 70%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other combined schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 15 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 14 | 7% |
| Grade 1 | 13 | 6% |
| Grade 2 | 11 | 5% |
| Grade 3 | 15 | 7% |
| Grade 4 | 23 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 10 | 5% |
| Grade 6 | 10 | 5% |
| Grade 7 | 15 | 7% |
| Grade 8 | 14 | 7% |
| Grade 9 | 19 | 9% |
| Grade 10 | 17 | 8% |
| Grade 11 | 15 | 7% |
| Grade 12 | 12 | 6% |
This year's kindergarten class (14) is about the same size as its 8th grade class (14).
Student demographics
9%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 65% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
34.0%
LA avg 41.8% . -2.0pp since 2022
Math
27.0%
LA avg 34.2% . -3.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 3 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 34.0% | 27.0% |
| 2024-25 | 37.0% | 25.0% |
| 2023-24 | 30.0% | 24.0% |
| 2022-23 | 36.0% | 30.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
27.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
27.2%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Louisiana's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Phoenix High School
Phoenix High School's state test result (27.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phoenix High School this school | 203 | 79.3% | 27.7% |
| Gibsland-Coleman High School Gibsland | 139 | 84.9% | 30.2% |
| Louisiana Key Academy Baton Rouge Baton Rouge | 351 | 76.4% | N/A |
| Morehouse Magnet School Bastrop | 284 | 72.2% | 56.0% |
| Helix Aviation Academy Baton Rouge | 383 | 90.1% | 15.2% |
| Pleasant Hill High School Pleasant Hill | 228 | 83.3% | 10.2% |
Matched among Louisiana K-12 schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Phoenix High School ranks
Among K-12 schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.7% | #40 of 55 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #38 of 55 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #42 of 55 ▼ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.5pp | #13 of 53 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 203 | #54 of 81 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.3:1 | #4 of 54 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 9.5% | #48 of 54 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.3% | #16 of 62 |
Ranked against other public K-12 schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
203
+5 (+3%) vs 2020
-58% since 1990-91, when it was 483
Student : Teacher
8.3:1
was 11.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 203 | 24.5 | 8.3:1 | 79% (161) |
| 2023-24 | 215 | 27.3 | 7.9:1 | 76% (164) |
| 2022-23 | 193 | 19 | 10.2:1 | 100% (193) |
| 2020-21 | 198 | 17 | 11.7:1 | 100% (198) |
| 2017-18 | 193 | 23 | 8.4:1 | 100% (193) |
| 2015-16 | 218 | 22 | 9.9:1 | 95% (208) |
| 2010-11 | 209 | 26 | 8.0:1 | 87% (182) |
| 2000-01 | 393 | 29 | 13.6:1 | 87% (340) |
| 1990-91 | 483 | 35 | 13.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Phoenix High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (193 to 203); teachers up 7% (23 to 24.5).
About Phoenix High School
Phoenix High School is a very small school serving multiple grade levels. Its address is in Braithwaite, Louisiana. Its enrollment is 203 students, spread over pre-K through 12. Across combined schools in Louisiana, the average enrollment is about 527.
Plaquemines Parish has a total of 8 schools and 3,510 students, Phoenix High School among them.
Roughly 95% of students at Phoenix High School are Black. Other groups make up 3% Hispanic. County-wide, 21% of Plaquemines Parish residents are Black. The diversity index for Phoenix High School is 9%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Phoenix High School lists 24.5 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 8.3 students per teacher. The gap from the 52.1:1 average for combined schools in Louisiana is 43.9 students per teacher. About 79% of students at Phoenix High School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Plaquemines Parish is 61%.
Among Louisiana public K-12 schools, Phoenix High School outscored 42%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Phoenix High School is within a point of the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 27.7% actual, 27.2% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Louisiana.
For the population of Plaquemines Parish, median household income comes to about $86,315, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Plaquemines Parish counts 9 public schools with about 4,283 students.
Phoenix High School's closest public school neighbor is Belle Chasse Middle School, about 7.7 miles away. Local comparison: Phoenix High School ranks 7th of 8 nearby schools, at 27.7% versus a 38.9% average.
Phoenix High School is in rural territory close to an urban area, a location NCES labels Rural: Fringe.
Enrollment was 203 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 198. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 11.7:1 to 8.3:1.
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Plaquemines Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
22,803
Census ACS
Median income
$86,315
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
9
4,283 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Plaquemines Parish
- Belle Chasse High SchoolHigh · 883 students
- Belle Chasse Middle SchoolMiddle · 656 students
- Belle Chasse Elementary SchoolElementary · 543 students
- Belle Chasse Primary SchoolElementary · 395 students
- South Plaquemines High SchoolHigh · 355 students
- Boothville-Venice Elementary SchoolElementary · 270 students
Other Phoenix High schools
6 other US public schools in 6 states are named Phoenix High. Phoenix High School is the 3rd largest of the 7.
- Phoenix High SchoolLawrenceville, GA · 921 students
- Phoenix High SchoolPhoenix, OR · 687 students
- Phoenix High SchoolDalton, GA · 141 students
- Phoenix HighSan Jose, CA · 70 students
- Phoenix High SchoolKennewick, WA · 58 students
Nearby schools
- Belle Chasse Middle School7.7 mi · 656
- Leo E. Kerner Jr. Elementary School13.5 mi · 360
- Belle Chasse Academy13.5 mi · 773
- Belle Chasse High School15.0 mi · 883
- J.F. Gauthier School16.1 mi · 500
- St. Bernard Middle School16.2 mi · 319
Frequently asked questions
About Phoenix High SchoolHow large is Phoenix High School?
Phoenix High School enrolls approximately 203 students in grades PK-12.
Is Phoenix High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Phoenix High School is a combined-grade school covering grades PK-12.
How many teachers does Phoenix High School have?
Phoenix High School employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Phoenix High School?
Student demographics at Phoenix High School are roughly 3% Hispanic, 95% Black, 1% Two or more.
What district is Phoenix High School in?
Phoenix High School is part of Plaquemines Parish.
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