Pelican State Education Coverage, Driven by Data
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Orleans Parish hit 82% in 2024 and held above 80% in 2025, but a 34-point gap between white and Hispanic students exposes deep inequity within the all-charter system.
Jefferson Parish enrolls 8,718 English learners at a 19.2% rate, nearly four times the state average and a quarter of Louisiana's EL total.
Louisiana hit a record 85% graduation rate in 2025, but students classified as English learners remain at 51.7%, a 33-point gap unchanged for seven years.
Seven years after the pandemic, 90.5% of Louisiana parishes remain below 2019 enrollment. The deficit is deepening, not closing.
Louisiana's graduation rate for students in foster care climbed from 34.8% to 63.5% since 2018, the largest improvement of any subgroup, though volatility and a 21-point gap remain.
Louisiana's largest traditional district lost 2,053 students in one year, its steepest drop, as immigration enforcement reshapes a diversifying parish.
Morehouse Parish climbed from a 64.3% graduation rate to 88.5% in 2025, the largest turnaround of any Louisiana parish over the period.
Forty-eight of 75 Louisiana parishes are now majority-minority, up from 42 in 2019. Six suburban and rural parishes crossed the 50% threshold.
Louisiana's special education graduation rate surged from 59% to 81% since 2018, nearly closing a gap that most states struggle to shrink below 30 points.
Louisiana classifies 70.1% of its public school students as economically disadvantaged, but the number measures the state's meal program accounting as much as its poverty.
East Baton Rouge Parish enrollment fell 4.3% in 2026, seven times the prior year's rate, as school closures, charter exits, and outmigration collide in Louisiana's capital.
Louisiana's white-Black graduation gap fell to 6.7 points in 2025, its narrowest on record, as Black students gained 4.8 points and outpaced white improvement.
Louisiana's graduation rate reached 85% in 2025, its highest on record, with gains across every major racial subgroup and the largest single-year jump in the dataset.
The 2025-26 school year brought Louisiana's largest non-COVID enrollment loss, with 67 of 75 parishes declining and six losing more than 500 students each.
White enrollment fell to 40.2% in Louisiana public schools, down from 47.1% in seven years. Seventy of 74 parishes lost white students.
