Plaquemine Senior High School

Plaquemine Senior High School, a middle-of-the-pack four-year high school in Plaquemine, Louisiana, one of the schools within Iberville Parish, enrolls 990 students, covering grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 711 students per school, that is 39% larger than typical.

Plaquemine Senior High School is one of 8 schools operated by Iberville Parish, a district that serves 4,076 students overall.

Demographically, Plaquemine Senior High School lists that Black students make up the majority at 57%. Beyond that, the school records 38% White, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Iberville Parish as a whole is about 43% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 85 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.0:1, putting Plaquemine Senior High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 67% of students at Plaquemine Senior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Plaquemine Senior High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.2%; this one delivers 27.7%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Iberville Parish) logs that median household income runs about $54,000, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across Iberville Parish's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,589 students), Plaquemine Senior High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Iberville Charter Academy, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Plaquemine Senior High School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 35.6%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Plaquemine Senior High School has shrank 32%, going from 1,464 students in 2018 to 990 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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