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East Baton Rouge Parish
Key statistics
39,320
Students enrolled
79
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.
District details
Grades served
PK to 12
Total staff (FTE)
5,048
District office
1050 South Foster Drive, Baton Rouge LA 70806
Phone
County
East Baton Rouge Parish
Official website
NCES District ID
2200540
About East Baton Rouge Parish
Description provided by the district or community — 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’s performance has increased by 13.9 points. Eighty-seven percent of the district’s schools showed growth. We are moving the right direction.