Summary:
Zip code 71232, serving the Delhi, Louisiana area, is home to a single high school, Delhi High School, which serves grades 9 through 12 with a small enrollment of 139 students and is part of the Richland Parish school district.
Delhi High School faces significant academic challenges, consistently ranking in the bottom 7% of Louisiana high schools over the past two years. While the school benefits from a favorable student-teacher ratio of 12.7:1, its performance on state assessments is critically low. In the most recent testing, proficiency rates in Geometry (13%), Biology (15%), and U.S. History (21%) are drastically below state averages. The school also struggles with a high chronic absenteeism rate of 28.3% and a dropout rate of 6.4%, which is more than double the state average. Its graduation rate of 74.4% is well below both the district rate of 84.7% and the state rate of 85.0%.
Despite these difficulties, there is a notable bright spot: Delhi High School outperforms its district in English I, with 48% of students proficient compared to the district average of 40%. However, this success does not extend to English II, where proficiency drops to 33%. The school serves a highly disadvantaged student body, with 83.45% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch, a factor that contributes to the cycle of disengagement reflected in the data. Overall, the school is a low-performing institution within a low-performing district, and its declining state ranking over the last three years indicates that these trends are not improving.
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