NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools LA

Best-Resourced Schools in Jena, LA

Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools. · Updated August 2026

5 public K-12 schools in Jena from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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Schools

1,573

Students

50/100

Avg Resource Index

14.1:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Jena has more public-school enrollment than 6% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Jena's 5 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

2 of Jena's 5 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Jena's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 87th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 23-point gap between Goodpine Middle School and Nebo Elementary School measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment: Top 94%
School count: Top 99%
Resource Index average: 87th percentile
Teacher staffing: 66th percentile

Jena High School accounts for 31.2% of all Jena public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Jena-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-26

Jena school enrollment varies 3.6× across entities

Jena school enrollment ranges from 135 students (lowest) to 490 students (highest), a spread of 355 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-26

Jena operates one school district — a single-district system

Jena's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-26

Jena student-teacher ratio is 14.1:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Jena is typically wider than the Jena-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe Accessed 2026-08-26

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	Goodpine Middle School	64	279	elementary	Lasalle Parish
2.	Jena Junior High School	56	288	middle	Lasalle Parish
3.	Jena Elementary School	46	381	Combined	Lasalle Parish
4.	Jena High School	43	490	high	Lasalle Parish
5.	Nebo Elementary School	41	135	Combined	Lasalle Parish

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Jena

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

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Which Jena school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Goodpine Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Jena schools in this federal-data comparison at 64/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Jena, LA? ▼

Jena has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,573 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.1:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.