VISUALIZED AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS · LA
Louisiana Public Schools
The canvas comes first: every public school district in Louisiana, drawn from the federal boundary files. The data layers — enrollment change, funding, teachers, achievement — are built on top of this map, Missouri-style, in phases.
THE DISTRICT MAP
School district boundaries
Hover any district for its name. Boundaries are the 2024–25 school-year files from NCES EDGE / U.S. Census TIGER.
MAP IN PREPARATION
The Louisiana district boundary file hasn’t been generated yet.
Run scripts/make_boundaries.sh to rebuild boundaries/louisiana.geojson, then redeploy.
Source: NCES EDGE Composite School District Boundaries, 2024–25 (via U.S. Census TIGER/Line). Unified school districts.
69 districts are drawn on this map.
A note about charter schools. Charter schools enroll about 14.5% of Louisiana’s public-school students, and they are not drawn individually on this map — they have no attendance boundary to draw. But in Louisiana most charter schools are authorized by local school boards, which means they generally sit inside the district boundaries you see here and count within those districts. What this map leaves out is the school-level detail, not the students themselves. A minority are authorized at the state level and enroll across district lines.
TEACHER PAY
What Louisiana pays its teachers
A first look, from the National Education Association’s 2024–25 salary benchmarks. These are Louisiana statewide averages of district salary schedules; a district-by-district map is the next layer (see the note below).
$46,850
Average starting teacher salary — bachelor’s degree, no experience.
NEA 2024–25 Benchmark Report
$63,832
Average top-of-schedule salary — the highest step and lane a teacher can reach.
NEA 2024–25 Benchmark Report
51
of Louisiana’s 71 school districts had salary data reported (71.8%).
NEA 2024–25 Benchmark Report
Source: National Education Association, 2024–2025 Teacher Salary Benchmark Report (April 2026), state tables ST-1 and ST-4. Figures are unweighted averages of district salary schedules; “starting” = bachelor’s degree with no experience, “top of schedule” = the highest step and lane. For reference, the national average starting salary was $48,112.
The district map is the next layer. A district-by-district salary map for Louisiana is being built from federal finance data — NCES teacher counts and the U.S. Census F-33 school-finance survey — to show an
average salary per district (a derived measure, and labeled as one). Until it lands, this page carries the verified statewide figures above. For the fully built version of this theme, see the Missouri flagship’s
Teacher Pay page.