High · Louisiana
David Thibodaux STEM Magnet Academy
Career and technicalFree meals for allDavid Thibodaux STEM Magnet Academy, a public high school in Lafayette, Louisiana: grades 6–12, 1,362 students, 21.1 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Lafayette Parish.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 1,362
- Teachers (FTE)
- 64.5
- Students per teacher
- 21.1
- Grades
- 6–12
- High
More students per teacher than 94% of high schools in Louisiana
Median 14.2 · 268 schools compared
More students per teacher than 86% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 87% of high schools in Louisiana
Median 576 · 269 schools compared
Larger than 82% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
Share of students scoring proficient or above on Louisiana's tests, grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year.
Reading and writing
Louisiana: 43%75%proficient
+2.5 points from 2023–24 school year
A higher share proficient than 94% of high schools in Louisiana
Median 36% · 67 high schools compared
630 students tested, grades 3–8 · LEAP 2025; proficient means Levels 4-5
Math
Louisiana: 33%64%proficient
+3.4 points from 2023–24 school year
A higher share proficient than 93% of high schools in Louisiana
Median 22% · 67 high schools compared
567 students tested, grades 3–8 · LEAP 2025; proficient means Levels 4-5
Each state sets its own test and its own bar for “proficient”, so results compare only within a state. Results also follow family income closely: a school's share reflects its students' circumstances as much as its teaching.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 6–12
- Type
- District school · Career and technical
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Midsize city
- Run by
- Lafayette Parish
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Lafayette Parish.
Location
- Address
- 805 Teurlings Drive, Lafayette, LA 70501
- Phone
- (337)262-5962
- City or town
- Lafayette
- County
- Lafayette Parish
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Northside High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 713 | 15.6 |
Edward J Sam Accelerated School of LafayetteAlternative | 7–12 | 84 | 13.0 |
W. D. & Mary Baker Smith Career CenterCareer and technical | 8–12 | 0 | — |
Carencro High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,116 | 17.8 |
| 9–12 | 257 | 37.7 | |
Lafayette High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,720 | 23.1 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
- State Assessment Data Repository (Education Data Center), 2024–25 school year. Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository v3.1.
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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