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Southside Alternative High School, Monroe, LA

Southside Alternative High School is a public school in Monroe, part of Office of Juvenile Justice. It enrolled 165 students in 2024-25, with 8.2 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
165
Teachers (FTE)
20.0
Students per teacher
8.2
Grades
1 to 12

This school's ratio is 1.3 higher than the district figure of 6.9. The Louisiana average across schools is 13.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school8.2
District6.9
Louisiana13.9
United States15.3

School details

Address
4701 South Grand St., Monroe, LA 71202
County
East Baton Rouge Parish
Level
Other
Type
Alternative
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Small
NCES school ID
220004701781
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
144
Reduced-price lunch
2
Free or reduced-price lunch
14688.5% of enrollment.
Direct certification
69Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
No

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 similar schools in Office of Juvenile Justice

Other schools elsewhere in Monroe

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.