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Southside Alternative High School

Public, Alternative Grades 1-12
326th
SchoolDigger Rank ?
of 329 Louisiana Alternative Schools
Better than 1% of Louisiana alternative schools
165
Students ?
8.2
Student/teacher ratio ?
$128,195
Per pupil spending ?
88.5%
Free/discounted lunch ?
 4701 South Grand St.
       Monroe, LA  71202

(318) 651-4841

District: Office of Juvenile Justice

Racial breakdown:

African American:
81.8%
White:
10.9%
Hispanic:
4.2%
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At a glance
▬ Ranking trend: Holding steady — <1st percentile in 2022 → 1st in 2026
Strengths
✓Small classes — about 8 students per teacher
Worth a look
!Test scores below the Louisiana average (5% vs 62% meeting standards)
!In the lower quartile statewide (1st percentile)
!Graduation rate below the Louisiana average (18% vs 85%)
Students meeting standards (2025-2026) ?
This school5%
Louisiana avg62%
326th of 329
Louisiana public high schools ?
Bottom 1%▲ up 1 pts since 2022
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SchoolDigger rating ?
1st of 2Alternative Schools in the Office of Juvenile Justice
119th of 119Office of Juvenile Justice among Louisiana districts
Statewide rank percentile over time (100 = the top-ranked school in the state; click a legend item to add a student group)
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All Students

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankLouisiana percentileRating
20260.6326 of 3290.9%☆☆☆☆☆
20221.1325 of 3260.3%☆☆☆☆☆

African American

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankLouisiana percentileRating
20261.8259 of 2610.8%☆☆☆☆☆
20242.9258 of 2600.8%☆☆☆☆☆
20223.7254 of 2560.8%☆☆☆☆☆

Low Socio Economic Status

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankLouisiana percentileRating
20260.7321 of 3240.9%☆☆☆☆☆
20240.8328 of 3280.0%☆☆☆☆☆
20221.4319 of 3220.9%☆☆☆☆☆

Male

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankLouisiana percentileRating
20260.8312 of 3151.0%☆☆☆☆☆
20221.3300 of 3010.3%☆☆☆☆☆

Special Education

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankLouisiana percentileRating
20265.8178 of 1822.2%☆☆☆☆☆
20257.1168 of 1701.2%☆☆☆☆☆
How student groups rank statewide ? (each group's percentile vs the same group at other schools — higher is better; the +/- beside each compares the group with this school's overall percentile)
Special Education (2026)2nd percentile~ school
Male (2026)1st percentile~ school
Low Socio Economic Status (2026)1st percentile~ school
African American (2026)1st percentile~ school
By subject vs Louisiana (2025-2026) ?
Algebra I12%-53 vs state
Civics7%-55 vs state
Geometry0%-57 vs state
Biology0%-60 vs state

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Students at Southside Alternative High School are 82% African American, 11% White, 4% Hispanic, 3% Two or more races.

In the 2024-25 school year, 165 students attended Southside Alternative High School.

Southside Alternative High School ranks in the bottom 0.9% of Louisiana alternative schools.

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Latest Louisiana data All new data »
2025–26 LEAP test scoresJul 6, 2026
2023–24 dropout ratesFeb 24, 2026
2023–24 school spending dataDec 1, 2025
2023–24 through 2024–25 graduation ratesNov 22, 2025


SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Louisiana Dept of Education.

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