St. Tammany 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 ...
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 Lost 15,424 Students in One Year
For five years after COVID emptied classrooms across Louisiana, the losses came in waves that seemed to be slowing. Traditional parish enrollment fell by 19,459 in the pandemic year, then 8,688, then ...
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...
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...