Cameron Parish
Nine Louisiana Parishes Hit All-Time High Chronic Absenteeism in 2025, Even as the State Improved
Louisiana's statewide chronic absenteeism rate dropped 2.1 percentage points in 2025, the first improvement in two years. But that headline number obscures what happened in nine parishes moving in the...
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...