South Cameron High School

South Cameron High School is an one-room-style multi-level school in Grand Chenier, Louisiana, one of the schools within Cameron Parish. The school serves 161 students in grades pre-K through 12. That puts it 69% below the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 527 students.

South Cameron High School is one of 5 schools operated by Cameron Parish, a district that educates 1,120 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, South Cameron High School reports that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 52.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 51% of students at South Cameron High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, South Cameron High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 47.6%; actual is 26.0%, a gap of -21.6 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Cameron Parish put median household income runs about $75,278, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. South Cameron High School is one of 5 public schools in Cameron Parish (combined enrollment of about 1,120 students).

Nearest neighbor: Grand Lake High School, around 16.6 miles off. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), South Cameron High School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.4%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 34%: 244 students in 2018 compared to 161 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 8.9:1 in 2018 to 6.0:1 today.

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