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Harrisonburg, Louisiana - 5 schools
An equity score of 78/100 ranks Catahoula Parish #13 of 175 districts in Louisiana (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $17,071 per pupil, Catahoula Parish ranks #54 of 188 Louisiana districts by per-pupil spending (Louisiana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,050
Total Enrollment
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$17,071
Per-Pupil Spending
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Catahoula Parish operates 5 public schools serving 1,050 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 Catahoula Parish.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,071 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 188 Louisiana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Louisiana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 27.8% local, 42.3% state, and 29.9% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 78/100, ranked #13 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.
a 179:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 37.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 61.9% White, 34.3% African American, 0.7% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Sicily Island High School, with a diversity index of 53.9/100.
Its largest campus is Harrisonburg High School, enrolling 318 students (35% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Central High School, at 47 students, a 7x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Harrisonburg High School accounts for 30.3% of all Catahoula Parish student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Catahoula 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.
Catahoula Parish school enrollment varies 6.8× across entities
Catahoula Parish school enrollment ranges from 47 students (lowest) to 318 students (highest), a spread of 271 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.
Catahoula Parish has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 56.7% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Catahoula Parish student-counselor ratio is 179:1 — 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.
Catahoula Parish chronic absenteeism rate is 37.0% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.