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Plaquemines Parish

Belle Chasse, Louisiana · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

3,510
Students enrolled
8
Public schools
299
Classroom teachers (FTE)
11.8:1
Students per teacher

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

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 192
  • Kindergarten 222
  • Grade 1 212
  • Grade 2 250
  • Grade 3 242
  • Grade 4 278
  • Grade 5 262
  • Grade 6 200
  • Grade 7 252
  • Grade 8 239
  • Grade 9 293
  • Grade 10 286
  • Grade 11 293
  • Grade 12 289

By race/ethnicity

  • White 51%
  • Black or African American 27%
  • Hispanic/Latino 13%
  • Asian 6%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native 2%
  • Two or more races 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

64% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 2,258 of 3,510 students in the district's schools
  • Free lunch 56%
  • Reduced-price lunch 9%

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

$20,624 spent per student on day-to-day operations Louisiana median: $16,090 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $9,950
  • Support services $9,754
  • Other (food service, etc.) $919

Where the money comes from

  • Local 86%
  • State 10%
  • Federal 5%

Total revenue $172.8 milliontotal spending $85.1 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)

Rural: FringeStudents: 56% rural, 44% suburb

Total staff (FTE)

599

District office

1484 Woodland Hwy., Belle Chasse LA 70037

County

Plaquemines Parish

Official website

NCES District ID

2201230

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About Plaquemines Parish

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

It is the mission of the Plaquemines Parish Public School System to provide the highest quality instruction for every student so that we produce the best authentic readers, writers, thinkers and listeners.
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