LOUISIANA HIGH

LOUISIANA HIGH operates as a minimally staffed four-year high school in LOUISIANA, Missouri, one of the schools within LOUISIANA R-II. Current enrollment sits at 187 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 63% leaner than the state mean of about 501.

LOUISIANA R-II runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 681 students. LOUISIANA HIGH is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, LOUISIANA HIGH shows that 75% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder breaks down as 14% Black, 11% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 90%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Pike County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LOUISIANA HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.1%, the actual is 40.4%, a residual of -9.8 points.

In the broader community, census data for Pike County shows median household income runs about $54,989, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Pike County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,424 students), LOUISIANA HIGH is one campus in the mix.

LOUISIANA MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around LOUISIANA HIGH. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LOUISIANA HIGH ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 36.0%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 10%: 208 students in 2018 compared to 187 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment rose from 6% to 14% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 10.7:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

Inside the community feed, the feed for LOUISIANA HIGH typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.