Vinton High School

Set in Vinton, Louisiana, Vinton High School is a rural-scale 9-12 campus, one of the schools within Calcasieu Parish. It hosts 242 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 711 students each, so Vinton High School sits 66% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Calcasieu Parish, which oversees 56 schools and 27,851 students, Vinton High School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Vinton High School logs that the largest single group is White, at 67% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 20% Black, 9% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. Compared to Calcasieu Parish overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Vinton High School logs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.3:1. The state averages around 18.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 58% of students at Vinton High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Calcasieu Parish) reports that the typical household earns roughly $67,564 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Vinton High School is one of 61 public schools in Calcasieu Parish (combined enrollment of about 30,278 students).

Nearest neighbor: Vinton Elementary School, around 0.9 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Vinton High School's enrollment has fell 11% since 2018, when it stood at 271 (now 242). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 today.

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