Original Research by School Decision on Red River Charter Academy
Red River Charter Academy serves grades six through twelve in Avoyelles Parish. It is a single-school district, so the school and the district are the same entity. The enrollment is small, drawing fewer than two hundred students across seven grade levels. The grades are not evenly sized; the sixth grade is the smallest cohort, while the upper grades, particularly eleventh and twelfth, are larger, suggesting students who start here tend to stay.
The student body is majority Black, with a substantial white population and small numbers of Asian, Hispanic, and multiracial students. The data does not include the share of students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, nor the share of students with disabilities or English learners. A parent wanting to understand the school's support for different learners would need to ask the school directly for these figures.
State testing data was not available for this school. The comparison among Avoyelles Parish's districts could not position Red River Charter Academy on proficiency because the school's own results were missing. The graduation rate, too, was absent from the data. A parent evaluating academic performance will find no state-issued test scores or a reported graduation rate to work from. This gap may reflect the school's nature as a charter or a small alternative setting, but the data does not say why. A conversation with the school's administration about assessment participation and outcomes would be a necessary step.
On measures that are available, the school's chronic absenteeism rate sits above the midpoint among Avoyelles Parish's districts. That means it is lower than some peer districts, but a small number of districts in the parish makes the comparison narrow. Per-pupil spending is in the upper range among the parish's districts, which may point to a different cost structure given the small enrollment, but no further detail on how those dollars are allocated is provided.
No recent parent-relevant changes were found for this district. The school operates as a charter academy but the charter or magnet status is not specified in the data. There is no information on discipline rates, course access, staffing ratios, or attendance beyond chronic absenteeism. The school's website was not provided in the data, so a parent's next step may be to contact the school directly for program offerings, class sizes, and the specific focus of its academic model.
Red River Charter Academy is a small school in a rural parish with a limited set of public data points. A family considering it would need to fill in many gaps through direct inquiry. The school appears to retain its older students through high school, but the public record offers little on what drives that retention or what academic outcomes follow.
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