At $10,522 per pupil, Jcfa Lafayette ranks #179 of 188 Louisiana districts by per-pupil spending (Louisiana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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$10,522
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Jcfa Lafayette operates 1 public schools serving 90 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Louisiana. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high 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 Lafayette Parish.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $10,522 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 19 of 188 Louisiana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Louisiana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 40.9% local, 35.6% state, and 23.5% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 59.6:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 89.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 60.7% African American, 35.7% White, 1.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Jcfa Lafayette, enrolling 56 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Jcfa Lafayette accounts for 62.2% of all Jcfa Lafayette student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Jcfa Lafayette a distant remainder — means Jcfa Lafayette-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: high. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Jcfa Lafayette student-counselor ratio is 60:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.
Jcfa Lafayette chronic absenteeism rate is 89.3% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.