Caddo Parish
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 ...
Jefferson Parish Hits Its Lowest Enrollment Ever
Jefferson Parish enrolled 45,406 students in 2025-26. That is the lowest figure in the eight-year data window, and it arrived with force: a single-year loss of 2,053 students, a 4.3% drop that is more...
Seven in Ten Louisiana Students Are Economically Disadvantaged
St. Helena Parish reports that 99.6% of its students are economically disadvantaged. East Carroll Parish reports 98.1%. Across Louisiana, the official figure is 70.1%, meaning 462,765 of the state's 6...
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 Eight Louisiana Students Now Attends a Charter School
In five years of comparable data, Louisiana's charter sector has added 6,914 students. Its traditional parishes have lost 32,171. Both facts describe the same state, the same years, and the same fundi...
Caddo Parish Has Lost Students Every Year for Seven Years
No parish in Louisiana has lost more students since 2019 than Caddo Parish. Its 5,611-student decline, a 14.8% drop from 37,868 to 32,257, outpaces Jefferson Parish's loss of 5,160 and East Baton Roug...
Caddo Parish's Three-Year March to an All-Time High: How Shreveport Lost Its Post-COVID Recovery
Caddo Parish had a COVID recovery in hand. In 2022, the Shreveport-area school district posted a 19.6% chronic absenteeism rate, just six-tenths of a point above its pre-pandemic baseline of 19.0%. Am...
Louisiana Has Lost Students Every Year for Seven Years
Of Louisiana's 74 traditional parishes with complete enrollment records stretching back to 2019, six managed to hold steady or gain students over those seven years. Six out of 74. Livingston Parish ad...
Louisiana Publishes 2025-26 Enrollment Data
A year ago, Louisiana's traditional parish school systems lost 2,775 students, less than half a percent, a decline small enough that superintendents across the state could call it stabilization. After...