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Baton Rouge, Louisiana - 1 schools
At $13,723 per pupil, Lanier Charter School ranks #136 of 188 Louisiana districts by per-pupil spending (Louisiana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Lanier Charter School operates 1 public schools serving 193 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Louisiana. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 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 East Baton Rouge Parish.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,723 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 188 Louisiana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Louisiana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 44.2% local, 30.6% state, and 25.2% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 234:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 62.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 91.9% African American, 7.3% Hispanic or Latino, 0.9% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Lanier Charter School, enrolling 234 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Lanier Charter School accounts for 100.0% of all Lanier Charter School student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Lanier Charter School a distant remainder — means Lanier Charter School-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.
Lanier Charter School has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 73.1% 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). Eligibility here is approaching the 75% concentration-grant threshold; it does not yet unlock the extra funding tier but sits meaningfully above the baseline 50% majority mark. 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.
Lanier Charter School student-counselor ratio is 234:1 — 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.
Lanier Charter School chronic absenteeism rate is 62.8% — 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.
Lanier Charter School has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 193 students.
How much does Lanier Charter School spend per student?
Lanier Charter School spends $13,723 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Lanier Charter School?
Lanier Charter School students are 91.9% African American, 7.3% Hispanic or Latino, 0.9% White, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.