About Rapides Parish School District
Rapides Parish School District is a public school system serving Rapides Parish, Louisiana, based in Alexandria. It serves 21,340 students across 43 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a city: small district. By enrollment it is the #10 largest of Louisiana’s 189 school systems.
Size and structure
Rapides Parish School District enrolls 21,340 students in 43 schools — an average of about 496 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #10 of 189 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Rapides Parish School District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (21,340 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
Rapides Parish School District employs about 1,575 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 13.6:1 — below the Louisiana average of about 13.7:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 2,773.
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 Rapides 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 Rapides 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 Rapides Parish School District in the free Cognia registry.
Rapides Parish School District vs. Louisiana
See every Louisiana district side by side in the Louisiana directory.
Look up Rapides 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):