Ascension Parish
58 Louisiana Systems Just Hit Record Enrollment Lows
Fifty-eight of Louisiana's 79 traditional parish and city school systems — 73.4% — recorded their lowest enrollment in the 2019-2026 data window. Seven of the 10 largest traditional districts were on ...
Ascension Parish Has Not Broken 16% in Six Years
Ascension Parish lists a Coordinator of Truancy and two Truancy Interventionists in its Student Services staff directory, part of a district serving nearly 24,000 students. The job titles sound bureau...
21 Louisiana Parishes Are at Their All-Time Highest Graduation Rate
Twenty-one of Louisiana's parishes posted their highest graduation rate on record in 2025. That is roughly 40% of all parishes with sufficient data, and it spans the state from rural northeast Louisia...
Louisiana's Fastest-Growing Student Group Has 27,000 Members
Every racial group in Louisiana's public schools either shrank or grew modestly between 2019 and 2026. Multiracial students did neither. They surged by 41.7%, adding 8,002 students to reach 27,180, th...
Only 7 of 74 Louisiana Parishes Have Recovered From COVID
Livingston Parish gained 232 students between 2019 and 2026. That makes it the most successful COVID recovery story in Louisiana. The second-best, West Baton Rouge Parish, added 168. The two parishes ...
Two-Thirds of Louisiana Parishes Are Now Majority-Minority
Seven years ago, Bossier Parish enrolled 22,876 students. White students made up 55.7% of that total. In 2025-26, white enrollment in Bossier has fallen to 49.2%, and the parish has joined a growing l...
Baton Rouge Loses 1,703 Students in One Year
For four years, East Baton Rouge Parish lost students the way a faucet drips. Between 2022 and 2025, the state capital's school system shed 217, 511, and 221 students in consecutive years. The decline...
Louisiana Lost 15,424 Students in One Year
For five years after COVID emptied classrooms across Louisiana, the losses came in waves that seemed to be slowing. Traditional parish enrollment fell by 19,459 in the pandemic year, then 8,688, then ...
Louisiana's White Student Share Falls to 40%
Seven years ago, nearly half the students in Louisiana's public schools were white. In 2025-26, that share fell to 40.2%, a 6.9 percentage point decline that reflects both a real demographic transform...
One in Nine Louisiana Students Is Now Hispanic
In a state losing students almost everywhere, Hispanic enrollment grew by 21,935 between 2019 and 2026, a 40.8% increase. Louisiana now counts 75,713 Hispanic students in its public schools, up from 5...