White Castle High School

White Castle High School, an intimate high school in White Castle, Louisiana, part of Iberville Parish, caters to 286 students, covering grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Louisiana's public schools average about 711 students each, so White Castle High School sits 60% below that benchmark.

Iberville Parish comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 4,076 students; White Castle High School is among them.

On demographics, White Castle High School lists that 83% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 13% White, 4% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, White Castle High School has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 7.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.0:1 average. Roughly 83% of students at White Castle High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Iberville Parish runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, White Castle High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.1%, the actual is 21.0%, a residual of -4.1 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Iberville Parish put the typical household earns roughly $54,000 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. White Castle High School is one of 9 public schools in Iberville Parish (combined enrollment of about 4,589 students).

The closest other public school is Dorseyville Elementary School, roughly 1.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), White Castle High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 26.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. White Castle High School's enrollment has shrank 3% since 2018, when it stood at 296 (now 286). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 8.4:1 in 2018 to 7.0:1 today.

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