Rapides High School

Rapides High School is classified as a high school. It is located in Lecompte, Louisiana. It teaches 248 students in grades 9 through 12. That is 65% below the average of about 711 students for high schools in Louisiana.

The district, Rapides Parish, has 21,340 students enrolled across 43 schools.

The student body at Rapides High School has no majority group. White students lead at 46%. Other groups make up 29% Hispanic and 22% Black. Rapides Parish as a whole is about 61% White, so the school's share is lower. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 65, compared with 70 nationally.

The school lists 21.1 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.7:1. Statewide, high schools in Louisiana average 18.0:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 81% of the student body.

Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Rapides Parish show that the median household earns about $54,967 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 23%, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. Across Rapides Parish, 51 public schools serve about 21,481 students.

Measured in a straight line, Carter C. Raymond Junior High School is about 1.6 miles from Rapides High School. There are 3 other public schools within ten miles.

NCES lists the school's locale as Rural: Distant. That means it sits in rural territory some distance from an urban area.

Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 248, compared with 291 in 2017-18. The Black share of enrollment decreased from 36% to 22% over the same period. Federal data show the ratio falling from 16.2:1 to 11.7:1.

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