Public school / High
West Jefferson High School
Harvey, Louisiana
- NCES ID
- 220084000654
- District
- Jefferson Parish
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
West Jefferson High School is a public high school in Harvey, Louisiana, run by Jefferson Parish. It enrols 1,524 students — the 3624th largest of 1,374 public schools in Louisiana.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
1,524
Teachers
56.0
Students per teacher
27.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
58.5%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Jefferson Parish
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Kenner Discovery Health Sciences Academy2,283 students
- 2John Ehret High School1,579 students
- 3West Jefferson High School1,524 students
- 4Bonnabel Magnet Academy High School1,478 students
- 5Grace King High School1,463 students
- 6East Jefferson High School1,348 students
- 7Young Audiences Charter School1,073 students
- 8Riverdale High School1,019 students
- Enrollment+211.7%
- Teachers+107.4%
- Students per teacher+54.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−12.7%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory