Plain Dealing High School

Plain Dealing High School operates as a close-knit combined-grade school in Plain Dealing, Louisiana, overseen by Bossier Parish. Current enrollment sits at 270 students spanning grades pre-K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 49% leaner than the state mean of about 527.

Bossier Parish comprises 34 schools with combined enrollment of 22,233 students; Plain Dealing High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Plain Dealing High School logs that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 41% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

On the income-and-resources front, Plain Dealing High School shows 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.0:1. The state averages around 52.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 77% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Bossier Parish's rate of about 53%.

With demographic context factored in, Plain Dealing High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.7%, the actual is 16.0%, a residual of -12.7 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Bossier Parish indicate the typical household earns roughly $69,617 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Bossier Parish's 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,233 students), Plain Dealing High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Herndon Magnet School, roughly 12.6 miles away. On composite proficiency, Plain Dealing High School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 36.4%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Plain Dealing High School's enrollment has ticked up 26% since 2018, when it stood at 215 (now 270). Black enrollment moved from 58% to 41% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 8.3:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the Plain Dealing High School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.