Coming back from the Labor Day holiday, student enrollment in East Baton Rouge Parish schools has declined by about 3.7% compared to a year ago.
If that holds, it would be the biggest enrollment decline for the state’s second-largest traditional school district since the first year of the COVID pandemic. And it would amount to a 14% drop over a six-year span.
Official enrollment counts for public schools in Louisiana occur twice a year — on Oct. 1 and Feb. 1. Each student gone equates to thousands of dollars in lost state education funding…