About Ascension Parish School District
Ascension Parish School District is a public school system serving Ascension Parish, Louisiana, based in Donaldsonville. It serves 23,743 students across 32 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a suburb: large district. By enrollment it is the #8 largest of Louisiana’s 189 school systems.
Size and structure
Ascension Parish School District enrolls 23,743 students in 32 schools — an average of about 742 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #8 of 189 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Ascension Parish School District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (23,743 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Ascension Parish School District employs about 1,758 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 13.5:1 — below the Louisiana average of about 13.7:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 3,237.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Louisiana funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Ascension Parish School District are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
Louisiana rates every school and district with a School/District Performance Score (0–150) translated into an A–F letter grade, from assessment results, academic growth, graduation rate and college-and-career readiness. Look up Ascension Parish School District on the Louisiana School Finder.
Accreditation status
Most Louisiana districts are accredited through Cognia (formerly AdvancED/SACS CASI), which reviews school systems on a six-year cycle; accreditation is not a statewide mandate. Look up Ascension Parish School District in the free Cognia registry.
Ascension Parish School District vs. Louisiana
See every Louisiana district side by side in the Louisiana directory.
Look up Ascension Parish School District’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):