Summary:
In zip code 70767, there is one high school, Port Allen High School, serving grades 9 through 12 with 452 students in the Port Allen area of Louisiana.
Port Allen High School is part of the highly-rated West Baton Rouge Parish district, which earns a 4-star rating and ranks in the top 22% of Louisiana districts. However, the school itself consistently receives a 2-star rating, ranking in the bottom half of state high schools. This creates a notable gap between the school's performance and its district's reputation. The school serves a high-poverty population, with 83.41% of students eligible for free or reduced lunch, yet benefits from a very low student-teacher ratio of 9.7, allowing for small class sizes. The graduation rate is 86.4%, slightly above the state average, while the dropout rate of 3.2% and chronic absenteeism of 19.9% are both higher than district averages.
The school shows highly uneven academic performance across subjects. Its strongest subject is Algebra I, where 75% of students were proficient in the 2025-2026 school year—a dramatic 30-point improvement from the previous year and 10 points above the state average. This suggests a successful new teaching strategy or intervention in math. In contrast, English II is a significant weakness, with only 48% proficiency, which is 19 points below the state average. Geometry (56% proficient) and U.S. History (50% proficient) fall in between. While the small class sizes are a valuable resource, they have not yet translated into broad academic gains across all subjects, indicating that the challenges of poverty may be offsetting this advantage in areas outside of math.
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