Stanley High School

Stanley High School operates as a close-knit combined-grade school in Logansport, Louisiana, one of the schools within DeSoto Parish. Current enrollment sits at 405 students spanning grades pre-K through 12. That puts it 23% below the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 527 students.

DeSoto Parish comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 4,923 students; Stanley High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Stanley High School lists that White students make up the majority at 69%. Other groups include 21% Black, 5% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, De Soto Parish as a whole is about 59% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Stanley High School has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 52.1:1, putting Stanley High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Stanley High School is in the bottom 10% of Louisiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 45.5%; Stanley High School posts 27.0%, -18.5 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for De Soto Parish indicate median household income runs about $48,578, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across De Soto Parish's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,923 students), Stanley High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Logansport High School, around 5.4 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Stanley High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 34.4%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Stanley High School has showed little movement, going from 415 students in 2018 to 405 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 78% to 69% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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