Pineville High School

Set in Pineville, Louisiana, Pineville High School is a substantial senior high, run under Rapides Parish. It educates 1,271 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 711 students each, so Pineville High School sits 79% larger than that benchmark.

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

Demographically, Pineville High School shows that the largest single group is White, at 59% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 33% Black, 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 2% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Rapides Parish as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 81 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.0:1 average. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Rapides Parish's rate of about 77%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Rapides Parish) records that median household earnings sit near $54,967, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Rapides Parish's 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,481 students), Pineville High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Pineville Elementary School, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pineville High School has decreased 9%, going from 1,399 students in 2018 to 1,271 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

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