What Louisiana School Districts Spend Per Student
The median Louisiana school district spends $15,308 per student per year, $765 above the national median of $14,543, across all 192 districts the state reports. The 69 of them a ZIP code can reach are listed below, and their 606,637 students account for $9.1 billion of current spending in fiscal year 2022.
Louisiana at a Glance
| Median district, per student | $15,308 |
|---|---|
| National median district | $14,543 |
| Districts listed | 69 of 192 |
| Students listed | 606,637 |
| Median district, math | ≈57% |
| Median district, reading | ≈64% |
Every Louisiana District, by Enrollment
Spending is current spending divided by fall membership for fiscal year 2022. Proficiency and graduation rates are school year 2018-19, the last year before the pandemic interrupted state testing, so the money and the results are not from the same year. A figure marked ≈ is one the federal file published as a range rather than a value, so small groups of children stay unidentifiable; it is the middle of that range and within ten points of the real one. A dash means the federal files publish no value under that district's ID. 123 further Louisiana districts are missing because the federal boundary file places them in no ZIP code, which is normal for charter and virtual districts with no attendance area.
| District | Students | Per student | Math | Reading | Graduation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson Parish School District | 46,896 | $16,675 | 60% | 64% | 72% |
| East Baton Rouge Parish School District | 41,043 | $15,604 | 58% | 65% | 69% |
| St. Tammany Parish School District | 37,048 | $14,024 | 75% | 81% | 81% |
| Caddo Parish School District | 34,746 | $14,387 | 54% | 62% | 76% |
| Lafayette Parish School District | 31,271 | $11,837 | 70% | 70% | 78% |
| Calcasieu Parish School District | 27,334 | $20,543 | 69% | 77% | 89% |
| Livingston Parish School District | 26,163 | $11,995 | 78% | 84% | 88% |
| Ascension Parish School District | 23,078 | $14,042 | 79% | 83% | 89% |
| Bossier Parish School District | 22,419 | $13,534 | 72% | 75% | 88% |
| Rapides Parish School District | 21,822 | $13,896 | 63% | 73% | 79% |
| Tangipahoa Parish School District | 19,343 | $12,458 | 50% | 60% | 75% |
| Ouachita Parish School District | 18,204 | $12,772 | 69% | 76% | 86% |
| Terrebonne Parish School District | 15,234 | $15,863 | 68% | 76% | 92% |
| Lafourche Parish School District | 14,040 | $15,029 | 74% | 81% | 93% |
| St. Landry Parish School District | 12,143 | $14,050 | 63% | 68% | 74% |
| Iberia Parish School District | 11,389 | $12,027 | 75% | 78% | 85% |
| Acadia Parish School District | 9,365 | $12,449 | 71% | 76% | 93% |
| Vermilion Parish School District | 9,291 | $13,778 | 78% | 85% | 92% |
| St. Charles Parish School District | 9,137 | $23,457 | 78% | 83% | 86% |
| Monroe City School District | 8,163 | $14,890 | 57% | 65% | 85% |
| Vernon Parish School District | 7,975 | $14,058 | 77% | 83% | 95% |
| St. Mary Parish School District | 7,919 | $13,564 | 68% | 72% | 93% |
| St. Bernard Parish School District | 7,738 | $13,983 | 70% | 72% | 91% |
| St. Martin Parish School District | 7,343 | $12,469 | 67% | 68% | 79% |
| Beauregard Parish School District | 5,671 | $13,818 | 70% | 76% | 95% |
| Evangeline Parish School District | 5,634 | $13,656 | 69% | 73% | 78% |
| Zachary Community School District | 5,509 | $12,545 | 84% | 88% | 94% |
| Webster Parish School District | 5,441 | $13,568 | 56% | 64% | 82% |
| Jefferson Davis Parish School District | 5,397 | $13,526 | 69% | 75% | ≈100% |
| Lincoln Parish School District | 5,297 | $15,391 | 67% | 72% | 97% |
| Natchitoches Parish School District | 5,245 | $15,353 | 56% | 63% | 78% |
| St. John the Baptist Parish School District | 5,109 | $19,773 | 55% | 64% | 76% |
| Avoyelles Parish School District | 5,039 | $12,612 | 54% | 59% | 84% |
| Washington Parish School District | 4,864 | $13,638 | 61% | 70% | 86% |
| De Soto Parish School District | 4,816 | $18,202 | 72% | 79% | 93% |
| Central Community School District | 4,814 | $11,628 | 82% | 85% | 87% |
| Iberville Parish School District | 4,362 | $20,341 | 66% | 69% | 89% |
| West Baton Rouge Parish School District | 4,150 | $17,351 | 66% | 76% | 87% |
| Sabine Parish School District | 4,058 | $14,516 | 65% | 74% | 96% |
| Allen Parish School District | 3,977 | $14,064 | 72% | 81% | 95% |
| Plaquemines Parish School District | 3,782 | $18,630 | 78% | 81% | 91% |
| St. James Parish School District | 3,425 | $22,445 | 75% | 79% | 84% |
| Morehouse Parish School District | 3,267 | $14,851 | 39% | 48% | 64% |
| Concordia Parish School District | 3,066 | $15,309 | 58% | 61% | 81% |
| Assumption Parish School District | 3,002 | $14,230 | 64% | 70% | 92% |
| Franklin Parish School District | 2,808 | $15,306 | 56% | 57% | ≈82% |
| Richland Parish School District | 2,705 | $13,709 | 48% | 53% | 82% |
| Grant Parish School District | 2,703 | $13,929 | 68% | 74% | 92% |
| Pointe Coupee Parish School District | 2,589 | $15,010 | 56% | 64% | ≈67% |
| La Salle Parish School District | 2,575 | $13,125 | 77% | 82% | ≈87% |
| West Feliciana Parish School District | 2,163 | $18,171 | 77% | 82% | ≈98% |
| Jackson Parish School District | 2,100 | $15,363 | 51% | 61% | ≈77% |
| Bienville Parish School District | 1,953 | $20,542 | 62% | 66% | ≈92% |
| Winn Parish School District | 1,942 | $15,294 | 58% | 69% | ≈87% |
| Union Parish School District | 1,862 | $14,626 | 49% | 54% | ≈82% |
| Bogalusa City School District | 1,855 | $19,673 | 34% | 50% | ≈67% |
| Orleans Parish School District | 1,830 | $45,736 | 63% | 73% | 81% |
| West Carroll Parish School District | 1,812 | $13,526 | 60% | 69% | ≈98% |
| East Feliciana Parish School District | 1,686 | $14,286 | 55% | 65% | ≈82% |
| Claiborne Parish School District | 1,678 | $15,633 | 41% | 52% | ≈98% |
| Caldwell Parish School District | 1,443 | $17,040 | 53% | 71% | ≈98% |
| Red River Parish School District | 1,313 | $22,361 | 46% | 48% | ≈87% |
| Madison Parish School District | 1,161 | $20,872 | 35% | 42% | ≈67% |
| Cameron Parish School District | 1,142 | $26,574 | 81% | 81% | ≈92% |
| St. Helena Parish School District | 1,109 | $13,828 | 19% | 35% | ≈67% |
| Catahoula Parish School District | 1,060 | $17,071 | 61% | 74% | ≈87% |
| Baker City School District | 1,011 | $16,972 | 37% | 43% | ≈72% |
| East Carroll Parish School District | 776 | $18,461 | 34% | 44% | ≈92% |
| Tensas Parish School District | 332 | $24,720 | 36% | 50% | ≈95% |
Sources
Spending and enrollment come from the NCES School District Finance Survey (F-33) for fiscal year 2022. Proficiency and graduation rates come from EDFacts for school year 2018-19. Districts are matched to ZIP codes through the NCES EDGE geographic relationship file. Nothing on this page is estimated or modelled: a figure is read from a federal source file or it is left blank.
Questions About Louisiana School Spending
How much does the average Louisiana school district spend per student?
The middle, or median, Louisiana district spent $15,308 per student in fiscal year 2022, $765 above the national median of $14,543. The median is the better summary here: a few very small districts spend several times what a large one does, and an average would follow them. That median covers all 192 districts the state reports. Across the 69 a ZIP code can reach, which are the ones listed on this page, 606,637 students account for $9.1 billion of current spending.
Which Louisiana districts spend the most and least per student?
Orleans Parish School District reports the highest figure in the table at $45,736 per student for 1,830 students, and Central Community School District the lowest at $11,628 for 4,814 students. Enrollment is the denominator, so a small district with one building and one bus route honestly produces a high figure; read the two columns together.
Why are some Louisiana districts missing from this table?
Louisiana has 192 districts with federal finance data and 69 of them appear here. The rest are placed in no ZIP code by the federal boundary file, which is normal for charter and virtual school districts that have no attendance area, so there is no ZIP code a reader could use to find them.
Does this money follow a child who is homeschooled?
No. The figure is what the district spends on a seat in its own schools, funded from local property tax, state formula aid and federal programs. Withdrawing a child removes the child from the count rather than sending the money home. TheHomeschoolingCompany is $1,788 for one student for a school year by comparison, less for each child after the first.
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