East Baton Rouge Parish 鈥� LA: Schools & Enrollment

Key statistics

39,320

Students enrolled

81

Public schools

2,936

Classroom teachers (FTE)

13.4:1

Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

Pre-K 1,437
Kindergarten 3,026
Grade 1 3,095
Grade 2 3,202
Grade 3 3,277
Grade 4 3,005
Grade 5 2,930
Grade 6 2,898
Grade 7 2,823
Grade 8 2,761
Grade 9 2,999
Grade 10 2,802
Grade 11 2,484
Grade 12 2,581

By race/ethnicity

Black or African American 68%
Hispanic/Latino 15%
White 11%
Asian 4%
Two or more races 2%
American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

71% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 27,859 of 39,320 students in the district's schools

Free lunch 66%
Reduced-price lunch 5%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$17,382 spent per student on day-to-day operations Louisiana median: $16,090 per student

Spending per student

Instruction $8,835
Support services $7,274
Other (food service, etc.) $1,273

Where the money comes from

Local 57%
State 25%
Federal 18%

Total revenue $900.4 milliontotal spending $854.9 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

City: MidsizeStudents: 75% city, 20% suburb, 5% rural

Total staff (FTE)

5,048

District office

1050 South Foster Drive, Baton Rouge LA 70806

Phone

(225) 922-5400

County

East Baton Rouge Parish

Official website

NCES District ID

2200540

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About East Baton Rouge Parish

Description provided by the district or community 鈥� not part of the NCES dataset.

Welcome to the East Baton Rouge Parish School System (EBRPSS), home to nine U.S. Blue Ribbon Schools, a nationally renowned Magnet Program and some of the best high schools in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report. We are currently the second largest public school system in the state, serving more than 42,850 students. Through the hard work and dedication of our 6,250 employees, of which 3,757 are teachers, our district continues to show a strong and steady increase in its average District Performance Score (DPS). According to the latest state test results, state data showed an overall growth for EBRPSS of 4.2 points, which indicates an improvement from the 2010 DPS of 82 points to 86.2 points this year. In the past four years, the district鈥檚 performance has increased by 13.9 points. Eighty-seven percent of the district鈥檚 schools showed growth. We are moving the right direction.

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