St. Helena Arts and Technology Academy

St. Helena Arts and Technology Academy is a primary school of small scale in Greensburg, Louisiana, run under St. Helena Parish, teacheing 291 students in grades 3 through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 36% below the state mean of about 453.

St. Helena Parish comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 997 students; St. Helena Arts and Technology Academy is among them.

On demographics, St. Helena Arts and Technology Academy logs that nearly all students (90%) are Black. The remainder comes out to 5% White, 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, St. Helena Parish as a whole is about 51% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, St. Helena Arts and Technology Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 12.9%; this one delivers 12.3%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for St. Helena Parish put median household income runs about $41,934, roughly 11% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 24% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across St. Helena Parish's 3 public schools (combined enrollment of about 997 students), St. Helena Arts and Technology Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: St. Helena Early Learning Center, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts St. Helena Arts and Technology Academy at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 14.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 16%: 347 students in 2018 compared to 291 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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