Zachary High School

Set in Zachary, Louisiana, Zachary High School is a sizable senior high, one of the schools within Zachary Community School District. It enrolls 1,726 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 143% bigger than the state mean of about 711.

Zachary Community School District runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 5,494 students. Zachary High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Zachary High School lists that 62% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest looks like 30% White, 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, East Baton Rouge Parish as a whole is about 44% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 110 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.0:1 average. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below East Baton Rouge Parish's rate of about 70%.

Across the wider county, census data for East Baton Rouge Parish shows the typical household earns roughly $63,071 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, East Baton Rouge Parish runs 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students), of which Zachary High School is one.

The closest other public school is Northwestern Elementary School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Zachary High School has ticked up 9%, going from 1,586 students in 2018 to 1,726 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 43% to 30% over that span.

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