At $19,584 per pupil, Rooted School ranks #24 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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$19,584
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Rooted School operates 1 public schools serving 154 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 Orleans Parish.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $19,584 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 36.3% local, 29.0% state, and 34.6% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 27.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 88.8% African American, 5.3% Hispanic or Latino, 3.9% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Rooted School, enrolling 152 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses held roughly steady from 2022-23 to 2023-24 (154 to 153 students, -0.6%), per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $3,060,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 41.7% went to instruction, 53% to support services, and 0% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Rooted School accounts for 98.7% of all Rooted School student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Rooted School a distant remainder — means Rooted School-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.
Rooted School chronic absenteeism rate is 27.0% — 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 Rooted School is typically wider than the Rooted School-aggregate figure suggests.