Public school / High
West St. John High School
Edgard, Louisiana
- NCES ID
- 220153001500
- District
- St. John the Baptist Parish
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
West St. John High School is a public high school in Edgard, Louisiana, run by St. John the Baptist Parish. It enrols 200 students — the 78000th 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
200
Teachers
32.0
Students per teacher
6.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
50.5%
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 St. John the Baptist 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.
- 1East St. John High School1,459 students
- 2Laplace Elementary School787 students
- 3Lake Pontchartrain Elementary School754 students
- 4Emily C. Watkins Elementary495 students
- 5East St. John Preparatory Academy392 students
- 6John L. Ory Communications Magnet Elementary371 students
- 7Fifth Ward Elementary School362 students
- 8Garyville/Mt. Airy Math & Science Magnet Schl.324 students
- Enrollment−59.1%
- Teachers+18.5%
- Students per teacher−64.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−24.6%
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