High · Louisiana
L.W. Higgins High School
Free meals for allL.W. Higgins High School, a public high school in Marrero, Louisiana: grades 9–12, 1,136 students, 20.5 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Jefferson 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
- 1,136
- Teachers (FTE)
- 55.5
- Students per teacher
- 20.5
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
More students per teacher than 92% of high schools in Louisiana
Median 14.2 · 268 schools compared
More students per teacher than 84% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 80% of high schools in Louisiana
Median 576 · 269 schools compared
Larger than 77% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Large suburb
- Run by
- Jefferson Parish
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Jefferson Parish.
Location
- Address
- 7201 Lapalco Boulevard, Marrero, LA 70072
- Phone
- (504)341-2273
- City or town
- Marrero
- County
- Jefferson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Joseph A. Cuillier Sr. Career CenterCareer and technical | 9–12 | 0 | — |
John Ehret High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,850 | 19.3 |
Fisher Middle/High SchoolFree meals for all | 6–12 | 498 | 15.8 |
Jefferson RISE Charter SchoolCharterFree meals for all | 6–12 | 764 | 17.8 |
Patrick F. Taylor Science & Technology AcademyFree meals for all | 6–12 | 871 | 18.5 |
Sophie B. Wright Institute of Academic ExcellenceCharterFree meals for all | 6–13 | 534 | 18.4 |
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).
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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