West Jefferson High School

West Jefferson High School, a well-populated four-year high school in Harvey, Louisiana, operated by Jefferson Parish, teaches 1,438 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 102% larger than the state mean of about 711.

Jefferson Parish runs 74 schools in total, collectively educating 46,790 students. West Jefferson High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, West Jefferson High School logs that 48% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 41% Black, 7% White, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the income-and-resources front, West Jefferson High School lists 77 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Jefferson Parish) logs that median household earnings sit near $65,252, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. West Jefferson High School is one of 86 public schools in Jefferson Parish (combined enrollment of about 47,983 students).

JCFA is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around West Jefferson High School.

West Jefferson High School operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 3%: 1,390 students in 2018 compared to 1,438 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 33% to 48% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 in 2025.

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