Tensas Parish

St. Joseph, Louisiana

Tensas Parish runs 2 public schools in Louisiana, enrolling 347 students — the 12783rd largest district in the country.

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At a glance

Schools

2schools

9136th nationally, tied with 2,808

Enrollment

347students

12783rd nationally, tied with 11

Schools listed here

2in the directory

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The schools

Every measure NCES publishes for each of them, rather than a summary line — a district this size and its schools are close to the same thing, and the figures are what separate the two pages.

Tensas Elementary School

St. Joseph

Enrollment: 17880213th nationally
Teachers: 10.083266th nationally
Students per teacher: 17.869291st nationally
Free or reduced-price lunch: 82.6%19864th nationally

Tensas High School

St. Joseph

Enrollment: 16981034th nationally
Teachers: 12.080415th nationally
Students per teacher: 14.138719th nationally
Free or reduced-price lunch: 82.8%19680th nationally

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The county it serves

Tensas Parish in the American Community Survey — the conditions this district works in, measured by the Census Bureau rather than by the Department of Education.

Population

3,935

Median household income

$36,615

Poverty rate

34.4%

Bachelor's degree or higher

14.6%

± 3.9%

Everything recorded for Tensas Parish →

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Where this sits

Geographic context

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Sources & licence

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics: Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)
Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

Data as of September 1, 2022.