Arcadia High School

Arcadia High School is one of the one-room-style secondary schools in Arcadia, Louisiana, part of Bienville Parish, with 248 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 65% below the state mean of about 711.

Bienville Parish comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 1,799 students; Arcadia High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Arcadia High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (89%). Beyond that, the school lists 5% White, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 40%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 7.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.0:1 average. Roughly 88% of students at Arcadia High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Bienville Parish's rate of about 73%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Arcadia High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.3%, the actual is 25.0%, a residual of +3.8 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Bienville Parish put the typical household earns roughly $35,011 per year, 13% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 22%. In all, Bienville Parish runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,799 students), of which Arcadia High School is one.

Crawford Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Arcadia High School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 32.5%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Arcadia High School has fell 18%, going from 301 students in 2018 to 248 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 94% to 89%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 7.8:1 in 2025.

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