Thibodaux High School

Thibodaux High School operates as a roomy four-year high school in Thibodaux, Louisiana, overseen by Lafourche Parish. Current enrollment sits at 1,306 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 84% larger than the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 711 students.

Lafourche Parish runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 13,326 students. Thibodaux High School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Thibodaux High School reports that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 33% Black, 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Lafourche Parish as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.0:1 average. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Lafourche Parish) logs that median household income runs about $63,135, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Thibodaux High School is one of 32 public schools in Lafourche Parish (combined enrollment of about 13,426 students).

Nearest neighbor: W.S. Lafargue Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Thibodaux High School.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Thibodaux High School's enrollment has declined 9% since 2018, when it stood at 1,435 (now 1,306). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 3% to 7%. Class-load math has tightened: from 23.1:1 in 2018 to 20.8:1 in 2025.

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