Oberlin High School

Oberlin High School operates as a very small high school in Oberlin, Louisiana, one of the schools within Allen Parish. Current enrollment sits at 180 students spanning grades 7 through 12. That puts it 75% smaller than the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 711 students.

Within Allen Parish, which oversees 11 schools and 3,853 students, Oberlin High School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Oberlin High School records that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 25% Black, 7% multiracial, 3% Hispanic.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.0:1, putting Oberlin High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Oberlin High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 36.4%; actual is 22.7%, a gap of -13.7 points.

In the area at large, Allen Parish reports that the typical household earns roughly $46,469 per year, about 12% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 21%. Oberlin High School is one of 12 public schools in Allen Parish (combined enrollment of about 3,859 students).

Oberlin Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Oberlin High School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 42.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 30%: 257 students in 2018 compared to 180 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment fell from 35% to 25% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 6.4:1 today.

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