Summary:
Zip code 70770, serving the Pride, Louisiana area, is home to a single high school, Northeast High School, which serves grades 7 through 12 with a total enrollment of 290 students. As the only school in the area, it is part of the East Baton Rouge Parish school district, which holds a 2-star rating and ranks 77th out of 116 districts in the state.
Northeast High School faces significant challenges across nearly all performance metrics. The school has consistently ranked in the bottom 13-19% of Louisiana high schools over the past three years, earning a 1-star rating each year. Its graduation rate of 76.2% is well below the state average of 85.0%, while the dropout rate of 7.2% is more than double the state average of 3.1%. The most alarming statistic is the chronic absenteeism rate of 41.3%, meaning over 4 in 10 students are missing so much school it is considered chronic—far exceeding both the district (30.5%) and state (22.5%) averages. Academic proficiency is consistently low across all subjects, with only 32% of students proficient in Mathematics, 48% in English Language Arts, and 21% in Social Studies, compared to state averages of 62%, 70%, and 55%, respectively.
Despite these struggles, the school does have a notably low student-teacher ratio of 7.5, suggesting small class sizes and potentially significant per-pupil resources. However, this has not translated into academic success. A brief bright spot occurred in the 2024-2025 school year when the school's Geometry End-of-Course exam proficiency rate reached 50%, outperforming the district average of 40%, but this was not sustained, dropping to 13% the following year. The school serves a high-poverty population, with 82.41% of students eligible for free or reduced lunch, and its state ranking has been on a downward trend, dropping from the 19th percentile in 2024-2025 to the 13th percentile in 2025-2026, indicating increasing challenges rather than improvement.
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