South Baton Rouge Charter Academy

South Baton Rouge Charter Academy is a K-5 school of roomy scale in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, overseen by East Baton Rouge Parish, educateing 819 students in grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 453 students each, so South Baton Rouge Charter Academy sits 81% above that benchmark.

East Baton Rouge Parish runs 83 schools in total, collectively educating 40,083 students. South Baton Rouge Charter Academy is one of those campuses.

On demographics, South Baton Rouge Charter Academy records that the largest single group is Black, at 65% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 27% Hispanic, 6% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 33.9:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, South Baton Rouge Charter Academy is in the bottom 10% of Louisiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 32.4%; South Baton Rouge Charter Academy posts 15.3%, -17.1 points below that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for East Baton Rouge Parish indicate the typical household earns roughly $63,071 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across East Baton Rouge Parish's 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students), South Baton Rouge Charter Academy is one campus in the mix.

Wildwood Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), South Baton Rouge Charter Academy ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 44.0%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site. South Baton Rouge Charter Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 39%: 590 students in 2018 compared to 819 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 71% to 65% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 33.9:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, members of the South Baton Rouge Charter Academy community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.