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Belle Chasse, Louisiana - 8 schools
An equity score of 55/100 ranks Plaquemines Parish #72 of 175 districts in Louisiana (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $18,630 per pupil, Plaquemines Parish ranks #33 of 188 Louisiana districts by per-pupil spending (Louisiana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
3,858
Total Enrollment
8
Schools
$18,630
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Plaquemines Parish operates 8 public schools serving 3,858 students, placing it among the smaller districts in Louisiana. The school portfolio breaks down into 5 combined, 2 elementary, 1 high schools, a compact enough portfolio that families can compare every campus directly before they move, rent, or enrol. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Plaquemines Parish.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $18,630 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 62.7% local, 15.0% state, and 22.3% 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 55/100, ranked #72 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.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 8 schools offering Advanced Placement (8 AP courses district-wide), a 383.6:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 24.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 42.2% White, 36.6% African American, 11.5% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Boothville-Venice Elementary School, with a diversity index of 70.2/100.
Its largest campus is Belle Chasse High School, enrolling 883 students (25% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Phoenix High School, at 203 students, a 4x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Belle Chasse High School accounts for 22.9% of all Plaquemines Parish student enrollment
That concentration means Plaquemines Parish-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Plaquemines Parish school enrollment varies 4.3× across entities
Plaquemines Parish school enrollment ranges from 203 students (lowest) to 883 students (highest), a spread of 680 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.
Plaquemines Parish has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 70.7% 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). 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.
Plaquemines Parish student-counselor ratio is 384:1 — 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.
Plaquemines Parish chronic absenteeism rate is 24.0% — 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 Plaquemines Parish is typically wider than the Plaquemines Parish-aggregate figure suggests.