Rayville High School

Set in Rayville, Louisiana, Rayville High School is a modestly sized 9-12 campus, operated by Richland Parish. It serves 341 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 711 students each, so Rayville High School sits 52% below that benchmark.

Rayville High School is one of 11 schools operated by Richland Parish, a district that works with 2,694 students overall.

On demographics, Rayville High School records that the largest single group is Black, at 62% of enrollment; the rest reads as 33% White, 2% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 36%.

On the income-and-resources front, Rayville High School shows 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.0:1, putting Rayville High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Richland Parish indicate median household income runs about $53,544, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 19%. Rayville High School is one of 12 public schools in Richland Parish (combined enrollment of about 3,312 students).

Rayville Junior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Rayville High School.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 11%: 382 students in 2018 compared to 341 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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