Summary:
There is one high school, Collegiate Baton Rouge, serving grades 9 through 12 in the Collegiate Baton Rouge district, a single-school district in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with 530 students and a very high poverty rate where nearly 97% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch.
Collegiate Baton Rouge shows a dramatic story of improvement. After ranking in the 18th percentile (1 star) in 2024-2025, the school jumped to the 37th percentile (2 stars) in 2025-2026. Test scores surged across the board, with Algebra I proficiency rising from 35% to 62% and U.S. History jumping from 23% to 56% in a single year. The school now nearly matches the state average in English I (65% vs. 66%) and even exceeds it in U.S. History (56% vs. 55%). Its graduation rate of 86.3% is slightly above the state average of 85.0%, and its dropout rate of 2.2% is well below the state's 3.1%. The school also benefits from a favorable student-teacher ratio of 11.7:1, suggesting smaller class sizes.
Despite these gains, significant challenges remain. Chronic absenteeism is a crisis, with 36.5% of students chronically absent—far above the state average of 22.5%. This is a paradox, as the school still achieves above-average graduation rates. Math and science are clear weak points: Geometry proficiency (37%) trails the state by 20 points, and Biology (43%) lags by 17 points. The near-universal poverty rate provides essential context, making the school's recent academic turnaround and strong graduation rate a testament to effective staff and programs. The biggest opportunity for further growth lies in tackling the absenteeism issue.
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