West Baton Rouge Parish

What the Numbers Say About West Baton Rouge Parish

West Baton Rouge Parish is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Louisiana, serving 4,150 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $19,413. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $86,147, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 2201920 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Louisiana statewide average of $67,557, teacher pay in West Baton Rouge Parish runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 27.5% gap, and near the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (4.7% differential). Among enrolling districts in Louisiana, it pays more than 89% of them. Licensing reciprocity, collective bargaining strength, and state aid formulas all contribute to where a district lands in these tiers.

On the budget side, West Baton Rouge Parish reports $80.6M in total expenditure against $89.0M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 30% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $12.3M, special-education teacher pay is $3.7M. These figures are district-level aggregates from F-33, not individual contracts — step-and-column schedules, stipends, and collectively-bargained differentials sit underneath these totals.