West St. John High School

West St. John High School is a senior high of micro-enrollment scale in Edgard, Louisiana, one of the schools within St. John the Baptist Parish, instructing 186 students in grades 8 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 74% leaner than the state mean of about 711.

Across the 10 schools in St. John the Baptist Parish (5,039 students total), West St. John High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, West St. John High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (97%). Beyond that, the school lists 2% multiracial. By comparison, St. John the Baptist Parish as a whole is about 57% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, West St. John High School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 7.3:1. The state averages around 18.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 84% of students at West St. John High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, West St. John High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 23.7%; actual is 10.5%, a gap of -13.2 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for St. John the Baptist Parish indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,630 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across St. John the Baptist Parish's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,039 students), West St. John High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is West St. John Elementary School (K-7), roughly 2.1 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), West St. John High School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 19.5%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at West St. John High School has declined 5%, going from 195 students in 2018 to 186 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 10.0:1 in 2018 to 7.3:1 in 2025.

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