Orleans Parish
East Baton Rouge's Graduation Rate Is Stuck in the 70s, Lowest Among Major Parishes
Louisiana's graduation rate has climbed to an all-time high of 85%. East Baton Rouge Parish, the state's second-largest school system, has not kept pace.
Hispanic Students Graduate at Just 73% in Louisiana, a 17-Point Gap With White Peers
Louisiana's white-Black graduation gap has been narrowing. The special education gap collapsed. The poverty gap sits under 5 points.
New Orleans Schools Span the Full Range of Chronic Absenteeism, From Near Zero to 70 Percent
In Louisiana, the share of students who are chronically absent (those who miss 10 percent or more of enrolled days) reached 22.5 percent statewide in 2025. In New Orleans, individual schools land all ...
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...