Livingston Parish
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...
One Parish Holds a Quarter of Louisiana's English Learners
No other parish comes close. Jefferson Parish enrolls 8,718 English learners in the 2025-26 school year, a rate of 19.2%. The next-highest parish by share, St. Bernard, is at 9.9%. The statewide avera...
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...
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...
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'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...
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...