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Cameron, Louisiana - 5 schools
An equity score of 73/100 ranks Cameron Parish #21 of 175 districts in Louisiana (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $26,574 per pupil, Cameron Parish ranks #10 of 188 Louisiana districts by per-pupil spending (Louisiana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,152
Total Enrollment
5
Schools
$26,574
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Cameron Parish operates 5 public schools serving 1,152 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Louisiana. The school portfolio breaks down into 5 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Cameron Parish.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $26,574 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 19 of 188 Louisiana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Louisiana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 76.6% local, 12.6% state, and 10.8% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 73/100, ranked #21 of 175 in Louisiana against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 2 of 5 schools offering Advanced Placement (2 AP courses district-wide), a 224:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 5.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 88.3% White, 7.1% Hispanic or Latino, 1.3% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Johnson Bayou High School, with a diversity index of 30.8/100.
Its largest campus is Grand Lake Elementary, enrolling 351 students (31% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Johnson Bayou High School, at 68 students, a 5x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Grand Lake Elementary accounts for 30.5% of all Cameron Parish student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Cameron Parish-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Cameron Parish school enrollment varies 5.2× across entities
Cameron Parish school enrollment ranges from 68 students (lowest) to 351 students (highest), a spread of 283 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Cameron Parish student-counselor ratio is 224:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Cameron Parish chronic absenteeism rate is 5.5% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.