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Public Schools in Louisiana

1,330 schools · 194 districts · 718,145 students

44%
Average
Avg Proficiency
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Largest Schools in Louisiana

School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.

University View Academy Inc. (FRM LA Connections)

Baton Rouge

3,928 students

Dutchtown High School

Geismar

2,643 students

St. Amant High School

St. Amant

2,411 students

Chalmette High School

Chalmette

2,334 students

Kenner Discovery Health Sciences Academy

Kenner

2,283 students

Ponchatoula High School

Ponchatoula

2,262 students

Mandeville High School

Mandeville

2,259 students

Louisiana Virtual Charter Academy

Baton Rouge

2,235 students

West Monroe High School

West Monroe

2,189 students

Walker High School

Walker

2,103 students

Frequently Asked Questions

Louisiana has 1,330 public schools across 194 districts, serving 718,145 students.

The largest school in Louisiana is University View Academy Inc. (FRM LA Connections) with 3,928 students. Louisiana has 1,330 public schools overall.

The average proficiency rate is 44%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.

All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.

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School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.

this entity is one of the data points covered by this site’s U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment dataset. The detail above comes directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the context that follows situates the headline numbers against the broader distribution across U.S. public schools and districts.

Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.

Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.