High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12
Jewel M. Sumner High School, Kentwood, LA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 428
- Teachers (FTE)
- 27.0
- Students per teacher
- 15.9
- Grades
- 9 to 12
This school's ratio is 2.8 higher than the district figure of 13.1. The Louisiana average across schools is 13.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 15841 Highway 440, Kentwood, LA 70444
- Phone
- (985)229-8805
- District
- Tangipahoa Parish
- County
- Tangipahoa Parish
- Level
- High
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Rural: Distant
- NCES school ID
- 220168001840
School meals
- Free lunch
- 251
- Reduced-price lunch
- 48
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 29969.9% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 242Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other high schools in Tangipahoa Parish
- Ponchatoula High School 2,067 students
- Hammond High Magnet School 1,606 students
- Loranger High School 616 students
- Independence High Magnet 490 students
- Amite High Magnet 347 students
- Kentwood High Magnet School 259 students
- TPSS Advanced College and Career Magnet Center 0 students
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.