Washington/Marion Magnet High School

Washington/Marion Magnet High School is a secondary school of tight-knit scale in Lake Charles, Louisiana, run under Calcasieu Parish, works with 597 students in grades 9 through 12.

Calcasieu Parish comprises 56 schools with combined enrollment of 27,851 students; Washington/Marion Magnet High School is among them.

On demographics, Washington/Marion Magnet High School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (93%). The remainder breaks down as 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Calcasieu Parish as a whole is about 23% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.0:1 average. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Calcasieu Parish's rate of about 59%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Calcasieu Parish) logs that the typical household earns roughly $67,564 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Calcasieu Parish runs 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,278 students), of which Washington/Marion Magnet High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Ray D. Molo Middle Magnet School, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Washington/Marion Magnet High School.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Washington/Marion Magnet High School has held roughly steady, going from 610 students in 2018 to 597 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

On this page, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.