Weston High School

Located at 213 Highway 505, in Jonesboro, Louisiana, Weston High School is a reasonably sized K-12 campus that caters to 598 students (grades pre-K through 12), operated by Jackson Parish.

Jackson Parish comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,927 students; Weston High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Weston High School logs that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment. Other groups include 12% Black, 4% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

On the income-and-resources front, Weston High School reports 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. The state averages around 52.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 59% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Weston High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 42.0%; this one comes in at 20.7%, -21.4 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, census data for Jackson Parish shows the typical household earns roughly $44,925 per year, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 19%. Across Jackson Parish's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,927 students), Weston High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Jonesboro-Hodge Middle School, around 5.9 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 4 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Weston High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 21.9%.

Weston High School operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Weston High School's enrollment has decreased 10% since 2018, when it stood at 665 (now 598). The Black share of enrollment edged down from 17% to 12% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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