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St. Landry Parish

Opelousas, Louisiana · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

10,982
Students enrolled
34
Public schools
922
Classroom teachers (FTE)
11.9:1
Students per teacher

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

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 376
  • Kindergarten 867
  • Grade 1 860
  • Grade 2 849
  • Grade 3 875
  • Grade 4 824
  • Grade 5 692
  • Grade 6 726
  • Grade 7 724
  • Grade 8 866
  • Grade 9 975
  • Grade 10 873
  • Grade 11 706
  • Grade 12 769

By race/ethnicity

  • Black or African American 54%
  • White 37%
  • Hispanic/Latino 6%
  • Two or more races 3%
  • Asian <1%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <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

79% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 8,694 of 10,982 students in the district's schools
  • Free lunch 74%
  • 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

$15,196 spent per student on day-to-day operations Louisiana median: $16,090 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $8,317
  • Support services $5,820
  • Other (food service, etc.) $1,060

Where the money comes from

  • Local 27%
  • State 38%
  • Federal 35%

Total revenue $225.9 milliontotal spending $218.4 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: DistantStudents: 58% rural, 42% town

Total staff (FTE)

1,685

District office

1013 Creswell Lane, Opelousas LA 70570

County

St. Landry Parish

Official website

NCES District ID

2201560

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