Orleans Parish
Orleans Parish Crossed 80% for the First Time, but a 34-Point Gap Separates White and Hispanic Graduates
Orleans Parish crossed 80% for the first time in 2024, posting an 82% graduation rate that represented the all-charter district's highest mark on record. In 2025, the rate settled to 80.6%, a slight r...
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...