High · Louisiana
Northwest High School
Free meals for allNorthwest High School, a public high school in Opelousas, Louisiana: grades 9–12, 575 students, 14.0 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of St. Landry 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
- 575
- Teachers (FTE)
- 41.2
- Students per teacher
- 14.0
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
Fewer students per teacher than 52% of high schools in Louisiana
Median 14.2 · 268 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 53% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Smaller than 50% of high schools in Louisiana
Median 576 · 269 schools compared
Larger than 60% 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
- Distant rural area
- Run by
- St. Landry Parish
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with St. Landry Parish.
Location
- Address
- 3746 Hwy. 104, Opelousas, LA 70570
- Phone
- (337)543-2255
- County
- St. Landry 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Magnet Academy for Cultural ArtsFree meals for all | 7–12 | 289 | 10.4 |
Washington Career & Technical Education CenterCareer and technical | 9–12 | 0 | — |
Opelousas Senior High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 698 | 12.1 |
Ville Platte High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 419 | 11.7 |
Church Point High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 504 | 15.9 |
Port Barre High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 354 | 10.5 |
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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