Sam Houston High School

Sam Houston High School is a large high school serving families in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The school enrolls 1,141 students, from grades 9 through 12. Average enrollment for high schools in Louisiana is about 711, so this school runs 60% bigger than that.

Calcasieu Parish (56 schools, 27,851 students) runs Sam Houston High School.

White students are the majority at Sam Houston High School, with 79% of enrollment. The school is also 11% Black, 7% Hispanic, and 3% multiracial. The White share of the county population is lower, at 66%. The school's diversity index is 37%, meaning two students picked at random have a 37% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

The school employs the equivalent of 77.3 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 14.8:1. That is lower than the 18.0:1 average for high schools in Louisiana. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 34%. For comparison, public schools in Calcasieu Parish average 59%.

Calcasieu Parish has these Census figures: the median household income is $67,564, roughly 25% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Calcasieu Parish is home to 61 public schools and about 30,278 public school students.

Nearby, Moss Bluff Elementary School is about 0.5 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles.

In the federal locale system, Sam Houston High School is coded Suburb: Mid-size, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

The student count changed little between 2020-21 (1,150) and 2024-25 (1,141). The school's ratio fell from 19.2:1 to 14.8:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.

The Sam Houston High School community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.