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Bastrop, Louisiana - 5 schools
An equity score of 51/100 ranks Morehouse Parish #88 of 175 districts in Louisiana (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $14,851 per pupil, Morehouse Parish ranks #104 of 188 Louisiana districts by per-pupil spending (Louisiana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
3,381
Total Enrollment
5
Schools
$14,851
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Morehouse Parish operates 5 public schools serving 3,381 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 Morehouse Parish.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,851 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 31.2% local, 41.2% state, and 27.7% 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 51/100, ranked #88 of 175 in Louisiana against a state average of 50, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 461.8:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 21.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 71.3% African American, 24.9% White, 1.4% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Morehouse Magnet School, with a diversity index of 45.6/100.
Its largest campus is Beekman Charter School, enrolling 1,053 students (34% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Morehouse Magnet School, at 284 students, a 4x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Beekman Charter School accounts for 31.1% of all Morehouse Parish student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Morehouse 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.
Morehouse Parish school enrollment varies 3.7× across entities
Morehouse Parish school enrollment ranges from 284 students (lowest) to 1,053 students (highest), a spread of 769 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.
Morehouse Parish student-counselor ratio is 462:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Morehouse Parish chronic absenteeism rate is 21.2% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Morehouse Parish is typically wider than the Morehouse Parish-aggregate figure suggests.