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Baton Rouge, Louisiana - 4 schools
187
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
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Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Special School District operates 4 public schools serving 187 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Louisiana. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 combined, 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 East Baton Rouge Parish.
and 50.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 62.3% African American, 33.9% White, 1.5% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Pinecrest Supports & Services Center, with a diversity index of 58.3/100.
Pinecrest Supports & Services Center accounts for 49.2% of all Special School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Special School District a distant remainder — means Special School District-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.
Special School District school enrollment varies 46× across entities
Special School District school enrollment ranges from 2 students (lowest) to 92 students (highest), a spread of 90 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme enrollment heterogeneity, the district operates both small specialty programs and large comprehensive campuses inside a single budgeting unit. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Special School District has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 92.7% 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 a supermajority of the population — well past the 75% concentration-grant threshold that unlocks extra funding on top of the basic Title I formula. 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.
Special School District chronic absenteeism rate is 50.0% — 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.
Special School District has 4 schools, including 3 combined, 1 high. Total enrollment is 187 students.
What is the demographic composition of Special School District?
Special School District students are 62.3% African American, 33.9% White, 1.5% Asian, 1.0% Hispanic or Latino, averaged across 4 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.