Ringgold High School

Ringgold High School is one of the rural-scale 9-12 campuss in Ringgold, Louisiana, part of Bienville Parish, with 219 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. That puts it 69% smaller than the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 711 students.

Within Bienville Parish, which oversees 7 schools and 1,799 students, Ringgold High School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Ringgold High School lists that the most-represented group is Black (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 41% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 40%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.0:1 average. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ringgold High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 27.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 16.0%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Bienville Parish put the typical household earns roughly $35,011 per year, about 13% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 22%. In all, Bienville Parish runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,799 students), of which Ringgold High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Ringgold Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ringgold High School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 32.0%.

Ringgold High School operates from a low-density location.

Five-year trend. Ringgold High School's enrollment has edged down 13% since 2018, when it stood at 251 (now 219). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 47% to 41%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

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