Salmen High School

Salmen High School, a sizable high school in Slidell, Louisiana, one of the schools within St. Tammany Parish, instructs 1,091 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 53% bigger than the state mean of about 711.

St. Tammany Parish comprises 55 schools with combined enrollment of 35,956 students; Salmen High School is among them.

Demographically, Salmen High School reports that 69% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder comes out to 15% White, 9% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, St. Tammany Parish as a whole is about 12% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.0:1 average. Roughly 63% of students at Salmen High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of St. Tammany Parish's rate of about 44%.

In the surrounding community, St. Tammany Parish reports that median household earnings sit near $81,202, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across St. Tammany Parish's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,212 students), Salmen High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is W.L. Abney Elementary, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Salmen High School operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Salmen High School has edged up 20%, going from 909 students in 2018 to 1,091 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 30% to 15% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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